Mireille Mathieu – La Marseillaise
An evening pause: Performed live in 1989, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Eiffel Tower. What I especially like are the English subtitles, because for some reason this song is rarely translated. Knowing the meaning of what they are singing in the scene in the movie Casablanca makes that scene even more moving.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
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The washed-out VHS look made it seem something filmed in the 1940s
Good grief!
The French national anthem is about taking on and destroying their own government and their own army. How amusing.
French national anthem follows the motto: The (political) enemy (=oppressor) has only one fate: death!
Yes Curtis, it was. It was a song for a group from Marseilles who went to Paris after the fall of the Bastille in 1789 hence its name. The French revolutionaries adopted it as the song of the Revolution, which was eventually applied to the nation. So of course it would have those themes.
Curtis-
Compare & Contrast ‘God Save the Queen’ with ‘America.’
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
God Save the Queen/America medley
https://youtu.be/y-nPsrX05Rk
(4:11)
France knows how to haver anthems–right or left
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internationale
Fictional subs too
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/the-%E2%80%9Cnautilus%E2%80%9D-submarine-in-movies-and-tv-series.44220/#post-706275
I think a bit of the Soviet Antem was used in funerals—the first I heard of it was in some spooky halloween record or other…