Cleveland Evans: Popularity of Charles grows from Charlemagne Charles is the French and English form of a Germanic word meaning “free man.” The first famous Charles was Charles Martel (688-741), King of the Franks, who defeated Muslim raiders at the Battle of Tours in 721.
June 25, 2013 - Omaha World-Herald
Daniel Barenboim in International Herald Tribune Of all the Wagner operas, 'Tristan' is the one opera that Wagner-haters like, even those who find the Ring intolerable, too Germanic, or whatever it is,Barenboim said.
Keith Richards in The Guardian The house had once been occupied by the Nazis, and in a recent interview Richards describes working there as "like trying to make a record in the Führerbunker. It was that sort of feeling: very Germanic down there - swastikas on the staircase:...