BASTILLE DAY 2021 Vive la France!

 



If you are a Francophile  (as am I).

If you like the tune of  La Marseillaise (as I do).

If, like me, you are an admirer of the music of Hector Berlioz.


Do not miss this.   Play it as loud as you dare! 


https://youtu.be/XoZYgqv3EMs


Don't worry too much about the words in English.  The anthem (with many verses) is a tirade against the idea of foreign  tyranny.


This:  from the French Government's official site

Following the French declaration of war on Austria in 1792, Rouget de Lisle, a French officer stationed in Strasbourg, composed the "Battle Song of the Army of the Rhine" during the night of April 25-26, in the home of citizen Dietrich, the Mayor of the city.

The song was taken up by the fédérés (volunteers) from Marseilles who took part in the Tuileries insurrection on August 10, 1792. It proved so successful it was declared a national song on July 14, 1795.

Marche des Marseillois chantée sur diferans theatres - March of the People of Marseilles as sung on various battlefields Paris, Frère; Lo ...Banned under the Empire and the Restoration, La Marseillaise was reinstated by the July Revolution of 1830, and Hector Berlioz orchestrated the music, dedicating his composition to Rouget de Lisl


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