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!
Since those women were martyred, France has been cursed.
The tune is great. You can always change the lyrics and use it for other purposes.
(As William Booth of the Salvation Army said, why should the devil have all the best tunes?)
This is the song I point to whenever someone is complaining about the US National Anthem being too martial. Compare surviving a night of shelling vs. watering your fields with the blood of your enemies.
Sorry but there are not many Frenchmen left who get motivated by La Marsellaise.
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Yes, and likewise there are fewer and fewer Americans left who get motivated by the Star Spangled Banner. Sad but true.
Also fewer and fewer Germans left who get motivated by Deutschland Uber Alles!
My FRiend, that is a sad comment.
Yes, the Homer Simpson line was funny the first 10 times I heard it, but think about it.
The Miracle at Dunkirk.
Yes, they extracted about half a million mostly English troops.
Who was the rearguard that helped this happen?
Where did they go? Home to France? About 40 K French and 40K Brits did not make the boats.
Many were murdered on the spot.
The usual line is, the French had the worst equipment and often terrible leadership...
Also, take a look at Dien Bien Phu.
No Frenchman here, my family came out of the Scottish Highlands and fought with Cornwallis AGAINST George Washington.
Cornwallis ran into some transportation issues and left the guys behind.
Well.....All you need is love.
I’d never thought about the juxtaposition of the two songs, until seeing your reply.
I have to believe, that they knew exactly what they were doing???
Yes! The French took the example of our American Revolution and turned it on it's head. We freed ourselves of our tyrant and overlords. The French murdered their tyrant along with anyone they didn't trust at any one moment. From their own leavings they originated Communism.
The song may fill you with spirit. It fills me with disgust and revulsion.
The French Revolutionaries burned the incorrupt body of St. Genevieve, the patron saint of Paris whose remains had been venerated for over 1000 years, and cast it into the Seine.
All that is left of her body is an ash colored formless lump.
Never trust a freemason with anything important, they do not love God and they do everything in their power to destroy Christian culture and the reign of Christ the King.
(from Henry V, spoken by King Henry)
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour’d rage;
Nothing ever changes
Once more unto the breach for God, Donny, America and Lady Liberty.
“Once more unto the breach for God, Donny, America and Lady Liberty.”
HEAR! HEAR!
A never-ending battle...
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