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scarletwoman

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17. Lyrics to La Marseillaise:
Mon Jul 14, 2014, 09:45 PM
Jul 2014

Allons enfants de la patrie,
Le jour de gloire est arrivé !
Contre nous de la tyrannie
L'étendard sanglant est levé ! (bis)
Entendez-vous dans les campagnes,
Mugir ces féroces soldats ?
Ils viennent jusque dans nos bras
Égorger nos fils, nos compagnes !

Refrain

Aux armes, citoyens !
Formez vos bataillons !
Marchons ! Marchons !
Qu'un sang impur
Abreuve nos sillons !

~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Que veut cette horde d'esclaves,
De traîtres, de rois conjurés ?
Pour qui ces ignobles entraves,
Ces fers dès longtemps préparés ? (bis)
Français ! pour nous, ah ! quel outrage !
Quels transports il doit exciter !
C'est nous qu'on ose méditer
De rendre à l'antique esclavage !

Quoi ! ces cohortes étrangères
Feraient la loi dans nos foyers !
Quoi ! ces phalanges mercenaires
Terrasseraient nos fiers guerriers ! (bis)
Grand Dieu ! par des mains enchaînées
Nos fronts sous le joug se ploiraient !
De vils despotes deviendraient
Les maîtres de nos destinées !

Tremblez, tyrans ! et vous, perfides,
L'opprobre de tous les partis,
Tremblez ! vos projets parricides
Vont enfin recevoir leur prix ! (bis)
Tout est soldat pour vous combattre,
S'ils tombent, nos jeunes héros,
La France en produit de nouveaux,
Contre vous tout prêts à se battre !

Français, en guerriers magnanimes,
Portez ou retenez vos coups !
Épargnez ces tristes victimes,
A regret s'armant contre nous. (bis)
Mais ces despotes sanguinaires,
Mais ces complices de Bouillé,
Tous ces tigres qui, sans pitié,
Déchirent le sein de leur mère !

~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Amour sacré de la patrie,
Conduis, soutiens nos bras vengeurs !
Liberté, Liberté chérie,
Combats avec tes défenseurs ! (bis)
Sous nos drapeaux, que la victoire
Accoure à tes mâles accents !
Que tes ennemis expirants
Voient ton triomphe et notre gloire !

Refrain

Nous entrerons dans la carrière
Quand nos aînés n'y seront plus ;
Nous y trouverons leur poussière
Et la trace de leurs vertus. (bis)
Bien moins jaloux de leur survivre
Que de partager leur cercueil,
Nous aurons le sublime orgueil
De les venger ou de les suivre !

Refrain

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

En Anglais:

Let's go children of the fatherland,
The day of glory has arrived!
Against us tyranny's
Bloody flag is raised! (repeat)
In the countryside, do you hear
The roaring of these fierce soldiers?
They come right to our arms
To slit the throats of our sons, our friends!

Refrain

Grab your weapons, citizens!
Form your batallions!
Let us march! Let us march!
May impure blood
Water our fields!

~ ~ ~ ~ ~

This horde of slaves, traitors, plotting kings,
What do they want?
For whom these vile shackles,
These long-prepared irons? (repeat)
Frenchmen, for us, oh! what an insult!
What emotions that must excite!
It is us that they dare to consider
Returning to ancient slavery!

What! These foreign troops
Would make laws in our home!
What! These mercenary phalanxes
Would bring down our proud warriors! (repeat)
Good Lord! By chained hands
Our brows would bend beneath the yoke!
Vile despots would become
The masters of our fate!

Tremble, tyrants! and you, traitors,
The disgrace of all groups,
Tremble! Your parricidal plans
Will finally pay the price! (repeat)
Everyone is a soldier to fight you,
If they fall, our young heros,
France will make more,
Ready to battle you!

Frenchmen, as magnanimous warriors,
Bear or hold back your blows!
Spare these sad victims,
Regretfully arming against us. (repeat)
But not these bloodthirsty despots,
But not these accomplices of Bouillé,
All of these animals who, without pity,
Tear their mother's breast to pieces!

~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Sacred love of France,
Lead, support our avenging arms!
Liberty, beloved Liberty,
Fight with your defenders! (repeat)
Under our flags, let victory
Hasten to your manly tones!
May your dying enemies
See your triumph and our glory!

Refrain

We will enter the pit
When our elders are no longer there;
There, we will find their dust
And the traces of their virtues. (repeat)
Much less eager to outlive them
Than to share their casket,
We will have the sublime pride
Of avenging them or following them!

Refrain

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Happy Bastille Day [View all] Jack Rabbit Jul 2014 OP
Vive La France! femmocrat Jul 2014 #1
beautiful. one day I will see it. bucket list. Tuesday Afternoon Jul 2014 #15
Same here. femmocrat Jul 2014 #19
aux barricades, citoyens! alterfurz Jul 2014 #2
Ah, history-will it repeat packman Jul 2014 #3
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité! another_liberal Jul 2014 #4
I wish history would repeat. BobbyBoring Jul 2014 #5
Today is Bastille day? Takket Jul 2014 #6
My guess would be Philip the Fair Jack Rabbit Jul 2014 #7
Cool story but guess again :) Takket Jul 2014 #14
Charles V/VI Jack Rabbit Jul 2014 #21
You are still wrong..... sorry! Takket Jul 2014 #22
That wasn't very Fair! femmocrat Jul 2014 #20
hmm, the first celebration thereof was opened by Louis XVI [edited] himself MisterP Jul 2014 #8
The Sun King, who thought the world revolved around him, wasn't celebrating what we're celebrating Jack Rabbit Jul 2014 #9
obviously, since the Sun King died in 1715 ... :-D MisterP Jul 2014 #24
That's 1789 Jack Rabbit Jul 2014 #25
drat! I misnumbered the kings (and I was dinging the Third Republic, not the revolutionaries or MisterP Jul 2014 #29
You're probably right. Jack Rabbit Jul 2014 #30
Allons enfants de la Patrie, sarisataka Jul 2014 #10
!! Jack Rabbit Jul 2014 #12
Here's another aint_no_life_nowhere Jul 2014 #23
Chinchin!!! Zorra Jul 2014 #11
Imagine how cool it would have been KamaAina Jul 2014 #13
Marianne, the national symbol of France aint_no_life_nowhere Jul 2014 #16
Lyrics to La Marseillaise: scarletwoman Jul 2014 #17
So I guess it is up to me to do this.... Motown_Johnny Jul 2014 #18
my sweet dad would be 87 today. Fifty years after he was born, his first grandson roguevalley Jul 2014 #26
standard greeting left is right Jul 2014 #27
Thanks! A bas les aristocrats. nt raccoon Jul 2014 #28
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