I thought he was Celtic. I think the original King Arthur stories were written in French, but in the most well known versions (Camelot, and Knights of the Round Table – Malory?) was Lancelot considered French? If so, consider me enlightened.
Heh, heh. Good point.
Even then the we had the “slimey Latin lover” cliché 
Even then the we had the “slimy Latin lover” cliché
Many people believe that Launcelot was a French insertion into the story of King Arthur and his knights in order to allow the French to relate more easily to the story. Check out the Wikipedia article onLauncelot and on the [url=]Lancelot-Grail, the medieval French manuscript that has the romance of Lancelot and Guinevere.
Nava, I stayed away from “qué bella” because that’s what the carpenters who speak Spanish yell whenever a college girl walks past, and those words are fused with that situation in my brain.
The best luck I’ve had in trying to explain it is to form your lips as if to say “oo,” but then, with the internal parts of your mouth say “ee.” In other words, say “ee” through pursed, ready-for-whistling lips, rather than through a wide-open mouth. That’s “coeur.” Then, of course, you have to put the “r” way back at the back of your tongue and swallow the last part of it. Then kiss your fingertips and go, “mwah!”
Sounds just like an umlauted “o” in German. Nicht wahr?
That would get you the French “u”, as in “sur”. The sound in “coeur” is more like an open “o” as in “dog” combined with an open “eh” as in “bet”.
Ja, more or less. Like the "ö "in “Götter”. The “ö” in “König” is analogous to the sound in “dieu”.