La Marseillaise / France National Anthem

"La Marseillaise" is a song written and composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg on April 25, 1792. Its original name was "Chant de guerre pour l'Armée du Rhin" ("War Song for the Army of the Rhine") and it was dedicated to Marshal Nicolas Luckner, a Bavarian-born French officer from Cham. It became the rallying call of the French Revolution and received its name because it was first sung on the streets by volunteers (fédérés) from Marseille upon their arrival in Paris after a young volunteer from Montpellier called François Mireur had sung it at a patriotic gathering in Marseilles. A freshly graduated medical doctor, Mireur later became a general with Bonaparte and died in Egypt at 28.

Music was adapted from "Variazioni sulla Marsigliese per violino e orchestra" written by the Italian composer Giovanni Battista Viotti in 1784.

Its lyrics are heavily oriented toward Prussian and Austrian armies which were attacking France at the time (Strasbourg itself was attacked just a few days after). The Battle of Valmy turned the tables.

The Marseillaise was screamed during the Levée en Masse and met with huge success. The Levée en Masse allowed it to become famous across all of France.

The Convention accepted it as the French national anthem in a decree passed on Bastille Day, 1795, but it was then banned successively by Napoleon I, Louis XVIII, and Napoleon III, only being reinstated briefly after the July Revolution of 1830 and then permanently in 1879. During Napoleon III's reign Partant pour la Syrie was the unofficial anthem of the regime.

Vive la France!

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@WeekNightGaming

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"There have been 53 major wars in Europe

France had been a belligerent in 49 of them; UK 43.

In 185 battles that France had fought over the past 800 years, their armies had won 132 times, lost 43 times and drawn only 10.

Giving the French military the best record of any country in Europe".

& it is not by me but the "BBC History" ^^

I add more that France was often alone vs a big coalition of allies, all the opposite of others countries often behind a big alliance :-)

[16051957]

Vive la France - from New Zealand. - Beautiful anthem.

[Matteo21ish]

I had a wonderful ten-day stay in France last week. I went to France on October 23, 2011, and returned home on November 3, 2011. I saw a lot of those sights that are shown in this video. :-D

[WeekNightGaming]

@supergerry95 hahaha i look at this conversation and it is amusing! the german anthem fills me with inspiration, doesn't it you?

[supergerry95]

@WeekNightGaming wow dude you're totally wrong... you lose.

[nooyawkfun]

One of the most stirring anthems. I can't help thinking of Casablanca when I hear this.

[MaskedTehGamer]

@salstress

That's why the French army defeated Italy,Spain and Egypt in 3 months?

[wrk4gd]

It looks from the history analogy that France would be a great prospect to have for an Allie if anything should come to a head in the military issue, not to mention they are nice, Tammy Mast, Your Royal Countess, Savior Healer

[lowfunction419]

Is this song more motivational for waging than die wacht am rhein?

[salstress]

the more I learn about french history the more I become aware what a bunch of losers the french are.

[improud2blatin]

VERY BEAUTIFUL FRECH NATIONAL ANTHEM