French chanson

This bachelor thesis is dealing with the subject of the French chanson in a way it can be called the music and literary genre at the same time. Its objective is to explain the relation of the French chanson to the particular Czech genre called "šanson". The thesis tries to place the French chanson understood in this way into the framework of the song genre in general. There is also a part presenting the characteristic features, history, historical important halls and styles of the chosen interpreters of the chanson on the French territory. One part unfolds the esthetic tools of the French song. The thesis finally treats the influence that this specific song genre had on the music creation abroad. The thesis at this point also explains the connection between the Czech and the French chanson, which is demonstrated on the chanson development on the Czech territory and on the selection of Czech interpreters, composers and text writers