| Everything you might want to know about La Marseillaise - the
French National Anthem, together with a video clip of the famous scene
from Casablanca and a Marseillasie sing along with Mareille Mathieu.
The tune and words are generally accepted to have been written in
one night (24-25 April, 1792) by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760-1836),
a captain in the Engineers, stationed in Strasbourg. The song was
adopted by the French Army of The Rhine as their battle hymn/marching
song - 'Le Chant de Guerre de l'Armée du Rhin'. It was named
La Marseillaise by the Paris mob, after militia troops formed in
Marseilles adopted it and sang it as they marched into Paris on
30 July, 1792. It quickly spread throughout France. La Marseillaise
was adopted as a national song of the (First) Republic by decree
on 14 July, 1795, then banned and then re-established and then banned
again until adopted as the official French national anthem in 1879,
with the version as we know it today being established in 1887.
Clicking on this link will pop-up a fuller version of the history
of La Marseillaise.
Clicking the pdf icon below, will open a downloadable/printable
version of the
You almost certainly know the tune to the French National Anthem,
but do you know the words?
Clicking
this link will pop-up the words to La Marseillaise in French.
Clicking the pdf icon below, will open a downloadable/printable
version of the La Marseillaise in French
It does not read or, of course, sound as good as the original French
version, but you might like to print out a version that gives an
English translation as well as the French words.
Clicking
this link will pop-up this French/English version of La Marseillaise.
Clicking the pdf icon below will open a downloadable/printable version
of the La Marseillaise in French, with English translation.
The most memorable rendition of the French national Anthem, has
to be the scene from Warner Bros timeless classic film, Casablanca.
When the clientele of Rics Bar (all the usual suspects) drown out
the Nazis and their marching song, with La Marseillaise. Not a dry
eye in the house. Remind yourself, click the link below to a You
Tube presentation of this classic moment of classic cinema.
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Watch and listen to the famous La Marseillasie scene from Casablanca.
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If you really want to learn the words, you can also try another
version of La Maseillaise, this time sung by Marielle Mathieu.
The words in French appear on the screen as subtitles, in
real time to the audio track.
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Sing along with the subtitles
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