La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse Acts as French Phrase Book

Summary: La Fille de Mélisande, short-story sequel by Kate Mosse to the 1902-staged opera, the 1893-staged play Pelléas et Mélisande, acts as French phrase book.

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Palais Maeterlinck (from French palais, “palace”) on the Côte d'Azur (from French côte de azur, “coast of [bright-, clear-skied] azure [blue]”), Mediterranean coastal southern France, abounds in elegant, refined architecture. Maurice Maeterlinck (Aug. 29, 1862-May 6, 1949) acquired Castellamare (from Italian castello a mare, “castle at [the] sea”) building for 2 million (2,000,000) Belgian francs at an auction actualized according to a Nice court decision against Comte Léon de Miléant (Feb. 18, 1878-1940?) of Krim, Ukraine. The latter added the 6,000-square-meter (64,583.46-square-foot) area in 1920, before which Frank Jay Gould (Dec. 4, 1877-April 1, 1956) of New York City, New York, admitted it among his private European residential addresses. The Maeterlinck mansion once again affirmed the Maeterlinck congenital affluence, with which it aligned with the Maeterlinckian appellation Villa Orlamonde (from French hors là monde, “out there world”), from a poem among the operatic libretto of his Ariane et Barbe-Bleue (from French Ariane, “Ariadne” [from Greek ἀρι-, “very”; ἀδνός, “holy, pure” via Ἀρῐάδνη]; et, “and”; barbe, “beard”; bleue, “blue”) with Paul Dukas (Oct. 1, 1865-May 17, 1935); Sunday, Feb. 17, 2019, 14:29, image of Palais Maeterlinck, Cap de Nice, Baie des Anges (Niçois: baia dei Ange ou baia dei Àngels), southeastern France: Stéphane Marguet, CC BY 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

La Fille de Mélisande, short-story sequel, for the Jeanette Winterson-edited, 2009-released Midsummer Nights collection, by Kate Mosse to the 1902-staged opera, the 1893-staged play Pelléas et Mélisande, acts as French phrase book.

La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, “the”; fille, “daughter”; de, “of”; Mélisande, “[Frenchified] Millicent [Anglicized Germanic amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba) boasts French titling. It conserves respectively French and Belgian cultures of composer Achille-Claude Debussy (Aug. 22, 1862-March 25, 1918) and of playwright Maurice Maeterlinck (Aug. 29, 1862-May 6, 1949). It designates people-naming proper nouns, such as Genevieve, Golaud, Melisande, Miette, Pelleas and Yniold even as it does not divulge Genevieve’s husband or her first daughter-in-law.

The English first name Genevieve ensues from Geneviève (Frenchified from German kunga, “clan, family, lineage”; wiba, “wife, woman”?; from Gaulish genos, “family, kin” via medieval Genovefa?).

That queen’s elder son, Prince Golaud (from Old Testament gilead, “heap of witnesses” via French Galaad, Galahad), favors a Frencified Biblical proper noun and topographical feature.

Queen Genevieve’s younger son, Prince Pelleas (Frenchified from Greek πηλός, “clay” via Πηλεύς), gets the first name of Lady of the Lake Niume’s Round-Table Knight husband. She has two grandchildren, of whom her granddaughter, by Golaud’s last wife, Melisande, hearkens to the first name Miette (from French Mélisande, “Millicent”; and miette, “crumb”). Yniold (from German irmin, “great”; hilt, “battle” via Irminhild via Italian Imeldo) is Golaud’s only child with his next-last wife and Queen Genevieve’s first-born, only grandson.

La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse jubilates, in its linguistic journeys as French phrase book, the place-naming proper nouns Allemonde and La Fontaine des Aveugles.

The English-language prose keepsakes from the French-language opera and the Belgian-French play the imaginary-kingdom name Allemonde (from German allaz, “all”; mann-, “men, people” via Latin Alemannī).

Allemonde (from German allaz-, “all”; French monde, “world”?) lands lodge La Fontaine des Aveugles (from French la, “the”; fontaine, “fountain”; de les, “of the”; aveugles, “blind”). La Fontaine des Aveugles also may be monikered L’Abreuvoir des Aveugles (from French le, “the”; abreuvoir, “drinking fountain, watering hole”; de les, “of the”; aveugles, “blind”). It niches fresh water for Allemonde non-royals and royals and perhaps for that kingdom’s animal and bird life, such as sheep and as gulls and nightjars.

La Fontaine des Aveugles offers the French phrase book obtainable from common and proper nouns in La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse a fictitious occurrence.

The Belgian capital, Bruxelles (from Germanic brōk, “marsh”; sali, “building, room”), preserves abreuvoirs-fontaines des aveugles sculpturally portraying Pieter Brueghel’s (1525?-Sep. 9, 1569) blind-led blind parabled painting.

La Fille de Mélisande short-story sequel quarters French sentences and sentence fragments, with La verite, Pas maintenant; Un, deux, trois loup queuing among verb-less phrases. La vérité; Pas maintenant; Un amour défendu; Un, deux, trois loup respectively reveal “The truth!”; “Not now!”; “A forbidden love!”; “One, two, three [beware the] wolf!” The sole sentences, Je te pardonne and Je te pardonne tout, suggest that “I forgive you[.] I forgive you [for] everything” (literally, “I you forgive all”).

La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Moss from the 116-year-old play and the 107-year-old opera, transmits true-life phrases and sentences transmissible through a French phrase book.

Musical ability allowed Achille-Claude Debussy (Aug. 22, 1862-March 25, 1918), composer of the opera Pelléas et Mélisande (from Greek πηλός, “clay” via Πηλεύς; French et, "and"; French Mélisande, "Millicent" [Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba]) from the same-named Maurice Maeterlinck (Aug. 29, 1862-May 6, 1949) play, to ally with far more affluent society than that of his parents, china-shop operator Manuel-Achille Debussy (May 10, 1835-Oct. 28, 1910) and seamstress Victorine Manoury Debussy (Oct. 28, 1836-March 23, 1915). Audiences ardently amassing to his Pelléas et Mélisande April 30, 1902, anticipated his social ascent from Saint-Germain-en-Laye newborn to Villeneuve-la-Guyard 2-year addressee (1902-1904) to 23 Square de l’Avenue Foch dying addressee; Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012, 15:06, image of Achille-Claude Debussy's last residence, 23 Square de l’Avenue Foch, 16th arrondissement of Paris (le XVIe arrondissement de Paris), Right Bank (rive droite de la Seine): Ptelea, CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

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Palais Maeterlinck (from French palais, “palace”) on the Côte d'Azur (from French côte de azur, “coast of [bright-, clear-skied] azure [blue]”), Mediterranean coastal southern France, abounds in elegant, refined architecture. Maurice Maeterlinck (Aug. 29, 1862-May 6, 1949) acquired Castellamare (from Italian castello a mare, “castle at [the] sea”) building for 2 million (2,000,000) Belgian francs at an auction actualized according to a Nice court decision against Comte Léon de Miléant (Feb. 18, 1878-1940?) of Krim, Ukraine. The latter added the 6,000-square-meter (64,583.46-square-foot) area in 1920, before which Frank Jay Gould (Dec. 4, 1877-April 1, 1956) of New York City, New York, admitted it among his private European residential addresses. The Maeterlinck mansion once again affirmed the Maeterlinck congenital affluence, with which it aligned with the Maeterlinckian appellation Villa Orlamonde (from French hors là monde, “out there world”), from a poem among the operatic libretto of his Ariane et Barbe-Bleue (from French Ariane, “Ariadne” [from Greek ἀρι-, “very”; ἀδνός, “holy, pure” via Ἀρῐάδνη]; et, “and”; barbe, “beard”; bleue, “blue”) with Paul Dukas (Oct. 1, 1865-May 17, 1935); Sunday, Feb. 17, 2019, 14:29, image of Palais Maeterlinck, Cap de Nice, Baie des Anges (Niçois: baia dei Ange ou baia dei Àngels), southeastern France: Stéphane Marguet, CC BY 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PalaisMaeterlinck.jpeg

Musical ability allowed Achille-Claude Debussy (Aug. 22, 1862-March 25, 1918), composer of the opera Pelléas et Mélisande (from Greek πηλός, “clay” via Πηλεύς; French et, "and"; French Mélisande, "Millicent" [Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba]) from the same-named Maurice Maeterlinck (Aug. 29, 1862-May 6, 1949) play, to ally with far more affluent society than that of his parents, china-shop operator Manuel-Achille Debussy (May 10, 1835-Oct. 28, 1910) and seamstress Victorine Manoury Debussy (Oct. 28, 1836-March 23, 1915). Audiences ardently amassing to his Pelléas et Mélisande April 30, 1902, anticipated his social ascent from Saint-Germain-en-Laye newborn to Villeneuve-la-Guyard 2-year addressee (1902-1904) to 23 Square de l’Avenue Foch dying addressee; Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012, 15:06, image of Achille-Claude Debussy's last residence, 23 Square de l’Avenue Foch, 16th arrondissment of Paris (le XVIe arrondissement de Paris), Right Bank (rive droite de la Seine): Ptelea, CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Debussy's_house,_Sq._de_l'av._Foch.jpg

For further information:

Marriner, Derdriu. 10 November 2023. "La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse Admits Gold, Green, Red and White." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/11/la-fille-de-melisande-by-kate-mosse_10.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 3 November 2023. "La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse Airs Field, Forest, Marine Animals." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/11/la-fille-de-melisande-by-kate-mosse.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 27 October 2023. "Field and Forest Plants Abound in La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/10/field-and-forest-plants-abound-in-la.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 20 October 2023. "Kate Mosse Anchors in Allemonde her La Fille de Mélisande short story." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/10/kate-mosse-anchors-in-allemonde-her-la.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 13 October 2023. "La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse Adds a Pelléas et Mélisande Sequel." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/10/la-fille-de-melisande-by-kate-mosse.html

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