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When each woman arrived, she sat alone in a waiting room as music played in the background: either Francis Cabrel's romantic "Je L'Aime à Mourir" ( "I Love Him to Death") or Vincent Delerm's more neutral "L'Heure du Thé" ( "Tea Time").
Study finds that mood music affects how women react to a man's advances 2010
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It's the return of Goupil of «Mourir à trente ans».
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‘Bonnie Dundee’; and now, to the chanting of the mob, he amazed his family by learning and singing ‘Mourir pour la Patrie.’
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And see the editorial "Mourir pour le Coca-Cola," Le Monde, March 29, 1950.
Anti-Americans Abroad Judt, Tony 2003
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Colette Beaune, "Mourir noblement à la fin du Moyen Age," in La Mort au Moyen
The Funeral of Duke Philip the Good Edward A. Tabri 1990
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Then the song would change and the mournful notes of the "Death Hymn of the Girondins," -- "Mourir Pour la Patrie" -- would swell in wild yet solemn cadence on the wintry blast:
Edmond Dantès Edmund Flagg
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During the ceremony of the inauguration, the "Marseillaise" was sung by the National Guard and the people, and, at its conclusion, about the hour of three, the troops filed off before the Column of July to the thrilling strains of the "Marseillaise" and the "Mourir Pour la Patrie" of the Girondins.
Edmond Dantès Edmund Flagg
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The absolute silence, save when "Mourir pour la Patrie" sounded hoarsely in the distance, was as strange as it was unexpected.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Various
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Champs-Elysées, and, having been repulsed at an escalade of the railings of the Chamber of Deputies, retires, shouting the Marseillaise and a chorus from the new opera of the Girondins, "Mourir pour la Patrie."
Edmond Dantès Edmund Flagg
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National Guards, succeeded by a countless mass of the people armed with, guns, swords, clubs and bars of iron, chanting forth in full chorus, not the inspiring Marseillaise or the Parisienne, but in awful concert sending upon the night air the deep and dreadful notes of the death-hymn of the Girondins, "Mourir pour la Patrie," intermingled with yells for vengeance.
Edmond Dantès Edmund Flagg
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