Composition La Guerre Des Poilus

French−english (dictionnaire) bataille : battle batailleur : haggler, wranglers bâtard : unlifelike, false bateau : boat bath : chic, tony, smart, chick bâti : rack bâtie : well built bâties : constructed batifoler : frolic bâtiment : building bâtiment de guerre : warship bâtîmes : constructed bâtir : construct bâtirent : constructed bâtis : construct bâtissant : constructing bâtissent : build, construct bâtissez : construct bâtissons : construct bâtit : constructs bâton : baton, cane, stick French−english

absorbed in 1779. Each had its tradition and style. Opera was immensely popular but, in literary terms, is interesting mainly for the quarrel which THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT 165 divided the supporters of Lully and Rameau in the 1730s and the ‘Guerre des Bouffons’ which set Piccinistes against Gluckistes in the 1750s. The argument, which centred on the relative merits of French and Italian music, was symptomatic of the new cultural openness to aesthetic ideas discernible also in the plastic arts