lyrics: Allons enfants de la Patrie, Le jour de gloire est arrivé! Contre nous de la tyrannie, L'étendard sanglant est levé, … Aux armes, citoyens, Formez vos bataillons Marchons! Marchons! Qu'un to impur Abreuve nos sillons! Translation Go forth, children of the Fatherland The glorious day has come, Let's resist oppression, The blood-stained flag was raised. ... Take up arms, citizens! Let's regroup as a team! Step forward together! Step forward! Blood of the enemy unclean Will water our fields! *it is extracted from the original version*
La Marseillaise (France athem) La Marseillaise (roughly translated: The Song of Marseille) is the national anthem of France. This song was composed by Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg on the night of April 25, 1792, after the Emperor of Austria declared war on France. When he was born, it was called Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhine (March of the Rhein Army). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Originally, Rouget de Lisle named the song Chant de guerre de l'armée du Rhin ("March of the Rhein"), implying that the French troops would meet at the Rhein and drive away the allied troops. Austria - Prussia out of revolutionary France. The next morning, in front of the volunteers and the people of Strasbourg, Lisle sang a song that moved everyone. A few days after the song was released, the Austro-Prussian army attacked Strasbourg. Later, the song quickly spread throughout France. The volunteer army of Marseille, which gathered to defend Paris on July 30, 1792, sang this revolutionary song first on the streets of Paris, so the Parisian public called it La Marseillaise ("Song of the French"). Marseille"). The Austro-Prussian alliance was driven out of France after its defeat at the Battle of Valmy on September 20, 1792 On July 14, 1795, the French National Assembly passed a resolution to officially make "La Marseillaise" the national anthem of the French Republic, making it the first national anthem of France.[1] It lost this role under Emperor Napoleon I, and was later banned by Kings Louis XVIII and Charles X. The song was restored only briefly after the July Revolution of 1830.[2] During the reign of Napoleon I, Veillons au Salut de l'Empire was the unofficial anthem of the First Empire, while the unofficial anthem of the Second Empire under Napoleon III was Partant pour la Syrie. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, "La Marseillaise" was recognized as the anthem of the international revolutionary movement – for example, it was used by the Paris Commune in 1871. 8 years later (1879) , it was restored as the national anthem of France.