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France’s history is marked by many struggles. This is also reflected in the national anthem “Marseillaise”.
Munich – goosebumps before the game: With many anthems before international football matches, you can literally feel how much national pride flows through the players when they let the song of their nation ring out. This is particularly true of the national anthem that the French national team * reads before each game of the IN 2021 sings: The Marseillaise.
No other song is so interwoven with what is probably the most formative event in French history, the French Revolution from 1789 to 1799. The hymn brings the act of war to the fore.
The text of the “Marseillaise” – the French national anthem
Let’s go children of the Fatherland,
The day of glory has come!
Against us from the tyrany,
The bloody banner is raised. (2x)
Can you hear in the countryside
Blared the wild soldiers?
they come right into your arms
Slay your son, your companions.
To arms, citizens,
Train your battalions,
Let’s walk, let’s walk!
May impure blood Water our furrows!
In German:
Up, to the children of the fatherland!
The day of fame is here.
Against us was tyranny
Bloody banner raised. (2x)
Do you hear in the country
The roar of the cruel warriors?
They come up to your arms
To strangle your sons, your companions!
To arms, citizens!
Form your lines of battle
Let’s march, let’s march!
Until the unclean blood of our fields soaks furrows!
Author of the French national anthem: There is a connection to Germany
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle is widely regarded as the author and composer of the song. It was dedicated to the Commander-in-Chief and Governor of Strasbourg and Marshal of France, Count Luckner. In Luckner’s place of birth, Cham in the Upper Palatinate, the hymn continues to sound every day at 12:05 p.m. from the carillon on the market square.
Why is the French national anthem called “Marseillaise”?
And why is the anthem now called “Marseillaise”? That too is of military origin. The song got its name when soldiers from Marseille sang it when entering Paris on July 30, 1792, just before the Tuileries Tower during the French Revolution. On July 14, 1795, the hymn was officially declared a “French national song”. (cg)
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