Citations:chançon

Noun:

 * 1752, unknown, The Scots Magazine, Volume XIV., page #475:
 * The chançon of the French, the pſalm of the German, the balad of the Engliſh, and the ſong of the Italian, it is true, have their peculiarities ſo far, that they ſound beſt in the ears of the ſame nation ; but although the peculiar cadences of any of theſe cannot with propriety be introduced into the muſic of the other, yet is there ſomething in every one of them, which he who would ſcorn to borrow, will know how to adopt ; and it is from this general ſtudy alone, that the muſic of any one nation can be rendered compleat.
 * 1869, unknown, Shakspeareana Genealogica, part I., pages 16–17:
 * The pretty story, still so often repeated, of Richard being discovered in the castle of Tenebreuse by his faithful minstrel, Blondel, singing under the walls of his prison one verse of a chançon, to which the royal captive answered by another, is, alas ! for the lovers of romance, only a pleasing fiction.