Mireille Mathieu sings La marseillaise

Legendary b/w footage from the Eiffel Tower / Champs de Mars in Paris (1989).

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• Mireille
• Mathieu
• marseillaise
• French
• Francais
• France

[joeparkson]

I'm American, but this is the most inspirational and rousing anthem of all time. As sung by this beautiful woman, it transcends nationality and becomes the anthem for liberty.

[chickenwretch]

(yawn)...ho hum. Oops, dropped your carbine there Pierre.

[TorontoSammy]

This is my favorite national anthem in terms of music. When you include the words (I'm Canadian and speak English and French), it becomes inspirational. The only national anthem that I would listen to and actually enjoy it. Well done France!

[pine829]

@SachaRuzzante WW2 was driven primarily by the punitive provisions in the Treaty of Versailles. Had Germany not been economically crushed by these, it is very likely that Hitler would not have arisen.

The US should be militarily isolationist and economically open. Even today we manage to trade just fine with nations we don't politically agree with.

Where we get into trouble is picking winners. Our record in this regard is abysmal.

[pine829]

@SachaR You bet. There is no drug more addictive than power and no climax more pleasurable than conquest.

To a politician, power unused is power squandered and war is the ultimate power. To a general, war is an end onto itself. To a banker war is an investment. To a businessman an opportunity.

The present American Empire is like France in its treachery, the British in their greed, the Spanish in its corruption, the Russian in its meddling and the Roman in it hubris.

[SachaRuzzante]

@pine829 US Isolationism is a ridiculous concept in the modern world. After ww1, what happened? The US pulled out of the League of Nations, didn't ratify the Paris Peace treaties, and threw out the Anglo-American Guarantee. All factors that led to ww2.

Like it or not, the US has a responsibility to use its power for peace. Admittedly, they're pretty bad at doing this (Iraq, Vietnam, Nicaragua, etc etc were idiotic ventures) but this doesn't mean they should pull out entirely.

[SachaRuzzante]

@pine829 I have to say the US' history isn't much better. Revolution, War of 1812, war with Mexico, continuous meddling in central and South America. Is it in America's blood as well?

[SachaRuzzante]

@pine829 Well, we're agreed then.

[pine829]

@SachaRuzzante I do not hate the French or anyone else. I loath their long culture of war. I loath the modern day delusion that the destruction of another's land, livelihood and children is somehow "glorious" and that the slaughter of innocents somehow imbues greatness into a mans character.

The hate and the glorification of destruction is already in the song. I merely draw attention to the true nature of what the French chose to represent them musically.

[pine829]

@pine829 I am not for "world peace". I am not naive enough to even hope for it. What I want is national peace for my isolated nation. I am sick and tired of being taxed to death to support power hungry politicians prosecuting their Pax-Americana and black-hearted old rich guys maneuvering our government into sending our young men to die for their financial ambitions.

"French" is a nationality, not a "race".

Nothing I said is untrue...only uncomfortable.

[pine829]

@pine829

2) There is no hypocrisy. I am pointing out a truth. France, like virtually all of the Old World European nations has a long history of near continuous war. It is in their blood. The anthem clearly displays this.

What I am for is my nation ceasing to act like a European Empire get the hell out of our foreign entanglements and lets the Europeans, the Russians and the Middle-Easterners kill themselves like they want to.

This was the advice of the US Founders.

[pine829]

@SachaRuzzante

1) No, but I would stop building them. I live in the United States. All over this country are streets, town squares, parks and suchlike named for past wars that no one remembers. Where I live there is one for the Spanish-American War. I doubt that less than 20% of the people here even know which countries were at war in this war.

This memorial is nothing but a sad testimony of American imperialism and foreign meddling...on par with Iraq.