Posted on 12/18/2020 3:51:33 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
La Marseillaise, sung by Mireille Mathieu. American English subtitles.
Grab your weapons, citizens!
Form your battalions!
Let us march! Let us march!
May impure blood
Water our fields!
Liberty, beloved Liberty,
Fight with your defenders! (repeat)
Under our flags, let victory
Hasten to your manly tones!
Liberty, beloved Liberty,
Fight with your defenders! (repeat)
Under our flags, let victory
Hasten to your manly tones!
We will enter the pit
When our elders are no longer there;
There, we will find their dust
And the traces of their virtues. (repeat)
Much less eager to outlive them
Than to share their casket,
We will have the sublime pride
Of avenging them or following them!
NB: Not long after the first trill, I wanted to join the French Foreign Legion.
A bit of the history.
https://www.thoughtco.com/la-marseillaise-frances-national-anthem-4080565
Does this song have anything to do with the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror?
As much as I love Casablanca and the scene where this is sung, I do believe this song has its roots in the bloody French Revolution. I met some British priests a few years back that did not like it. Anyhow.......
See my remark below. Agree.
Sorry but there are not many Frenchmen left who get motivated by La Marsellaise.
Either that or the south side of Chicago....
Isn’t the “Intrnationale’ sung to the tune??
I’m with the Carmelite nuns who ENDED the Reign of Terror.
The thugs who destroyed France during the Reign of Terror channeled the same evil spirits who animate Antifa and Black Lives Matter.
If this is their song, may it be burned at the stake and its ashes thrown in running water.
“Does this song have anything to do with the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror?”
Yes
“The song was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg after the declaration of war by France against Austria, and was originally titled “Chant de guerre pour l’Armée du Rhin” (”War Song for the Army of the Rhine”).”
...”As the French Revolution continued, the monarchies of Europe became concerned that revolutionary fervor would spread to their countries. The War of the First Coalition was an effort to stop the revolution, or at least contain it to France.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Marseillaise
Austria and company were supporting the Royalist.
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The original French words were written in June 1871 by Eugène Pottier (1816–1887, previously a member of the Paris Commune)[6][incomplete short citation] and were originally intended to be sung to the tune of “La Marseillaise”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internationale
And the opening of a Beatles song and...
I always thought it had to do with repelling a Muslim invasion back in the time of Charlamange.
Musically it’s maybe the most inspiring national anthem IMO.
Well that shows how much I know.
Well.....All you need is love.
No, The Internationale is a different tune.
Per my remark above, the two Catholic British priests that I spoke with at a World Youth Day stated this song celebrated the reign of terror.
The former, not the latter.
The author of our Declaration of Independence was a supporter of the Revolution.
This little bit of history tells you what authoritarians thought of it:
Napoleon banned La Marseillaise under the Empire (1804-1815).ML/NJ
It was also banned in 1815 by King Louis XVIII.
“The thugs who destroyed France during the Reign of Terror channeled the same evil spirits who animate Antifa and Black Lives Matter.”
And the Royalists/Monarchists were so generous to the peasants, treating them like family.
Or maybe not.
Robespierre and his Committee of Public Safety lopped many, many heads in the name of the revolution.
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