La Marseillaise English: The Song of Marseille
Rouget de Lisle, Composer of the Marseillaise, sings it for the first time. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States
National Anthem of	France  French Guiana  French Polynesia  Guadeloupe  Martinique  Mayotte  New Caledonia  Réunion  Saint Barthélemy  Saint Martin  Saint Pierre and Miquelon  Wallis and Futuna
Lyrics	Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, 1792
Music	Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, 1792
Adopted	1795

"La Marseillaise" (IPA: [la maʁ.sɛ.ˡjɛz]; in English The Song of Marseille) is the national anthem of France. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. French Guiana (Guyane française officially fr ''Guyane'' is an Overseas department (French département d'outre-mer, or DOM) of France French Polynesia ( French: Polynésie française, Tahitian: Pōrīnetia Farāni) is a French Overseas collectivity in the Guadeloupe is an island group or Archipelago located in the eastern Caribbean Sea at, with a land area of 1628 square kilometres (629  sq Martinique is an Island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, having a land area of 1128 km² For the former North American fur-trading district see New Caledonia (Canada, and for the Scottish colony in Panama see Darien scheme. Réunion ( French: Réunion or formally La Réunion; previously Île Bourbon) is an island located in the Indian Ocean, east of Saint Barthélemy (Saint-Barthélemy officially the Collectivity of Saint Barthélemy (French Collectivité de Saint-Barthélemy) is an Overseas collectivity The Territorial Collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon (Collectivité territoriale de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon is a group of small islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Wallis and Futuna, officially the Territory of Wallis and Futuna Islands ( French: Wallis et Futuna or Territoire des îles Wallis et Futuna, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle ( May 10, 1760 in Lons-le-Saunier, Jura – June 26, 1836 in Choisy-le-Roi, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle ( May 10, 1760 in Lons-le-Saunier, Jura – June 26, 1836 in Choisy-le-Roi, Marseille, ( English alt Marseilles mɑrˈseɪ — French: maʁsɛj locally — Provençal Occitan: Marselha maʀˈsijɔ A national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that evokes and eulogizes the history traditions and struggles of its people recognized either by a nation's This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics.

History

"La Marseillaise" is a song written and composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg on April 25, 1792. A song is a Musical composition. Songs contain vocal parts that are performed 'sung' and generally feature Words ( Lyrics) commonly followed Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle ( May 10, 1760 in Lons-le-Saunier, Jura – June 26, 1836 in Choisy-le-Roi, Strasbourg (Strasbourg stʁazbuʁ Alsatian: Strossburi,; Straßburg) is the capital and principal City of the Alsace région Events 1607 - Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar. Year 1792 ( MDCCXCII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Its original name was "Chant de guerre pour l'Armée du Rhin" ("War Song for the Army of the Rhine") and it was dedicated to Marshal Nicolas Luckner, a Bavarian-born French officer from Cham. Nikolaus Count Luckner (* January 12, 1722 - January 4 1794 in Paris) was a German in French service who rose to become a Bavaria ( German:, with an area of 70553 Km² (27241 square miles and almost 12 Cham (ˈkaːm is the capital of the district of Cham in the Upper Palatinate in Bavaria in Germany. It became the rallying call of the French Revolution and received its name because it was first sung on the streets by volunteers (fédérés) from Marseille upon their arrival in Paris after a young volunteer from Montpellier called François Mireur had sung it at a patriotic gathering in Marseilles. The French Revolution (1789–1799 was a period of political and social upheaval in the History of France, during which the French governmental structure previously an The term " fédérés " (sometimes translated to English as " federates " most commonly refers to the troops who volunteered for the Marseille, ( English alt Marseilles mɑrˈseɪ — French: maʁsɛj locally — Provençal Occitan: Marselha maʀˈsijɔ Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city Montpellier ( Occitan Montpelhièr) is a City in the south of France. A freshly graduated medical doctor, Mireur later became a general with Bonaparte and died in Egypt at 28. Bonaparte is a French family name of Italian origin Originally Buonaparte, this family claims numerous influential descendents including Corsican

Music was adapted from "Variazioni sulla Marsigliese per violino e orchestra" written by the Italian composer Giovanni Battista Viotti in 1784. Giovanni Battista Viotti ( May 12, 1755 &ndash March 3, 1824) was an Italian Violinist whose virtuosity was famed and whose Year 1784 ( MDCCLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year

Its lyrics are heavily oriented toward Prussian and Austrian armies which were attacking France at the time (Strasbourg itself was attacked just a few days after). The Battle of Valmy turned the tables. The Battle of Valmy, also known as the Cannonade of Valmy, was a tactically indecisive artillery engagement but strategically it ensured the survival of the French

The Marseillaise was screamed during the Levée en Masse and met with huge success. Levée en masse (literally "Rise in (a Mass" is defined in Article 4 letter A paragraph 6 of the Third Geneva Convention. The Levée en Masse allowed it to become famous across all of France.

Général Mireur, 1770-1798, anonymous, terra cotta, Faculty of Medecine, Montpellier, France.

The Convention accepted it as the French national anthem in a decree passed on Bastille Day, 1795, but it was then banned successively by Napoleon I, Louis XVIII, and Napoleon III, only being reinstated briefly after the July Revolution of 1830 and then permanently in 1879. During the French Revolution, the National Convention or Convention, in France, comprised the Constitutional and legislative assembly Events 1223 - Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father Philip II of France. Napoleon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821 was a French military and political leader who had a significant impact on the History of Europe. Louis XVIII (17 November 1755 – 16 September 1824 Louis Stanislas Xavier de France, was a King of France and Navarre. Napoléon III, also known as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (full name Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte) (20 April 1808 9 January 1873 was the first President ^[1] During Napoleon III's reign Partant pour la Syrie was the unofficial anthem of the regime. Partant pour la Syrie (Departing for Syria is a French song the music of which was written by Hortense de Beauharnais and the text by Alexandre de Laborde

Re-arrangements

During French Revolution, Giuseppe Cambini published Patriotic airs for two violins, where the song is quoted literally and as a variation theme, with other patriotic songs. The French Revolution (1789–1799 was a period of political and social upheaval in the History of France, during which the French governmental structure previously an Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini ( February 13 ? 1746 - 1825? was an Italian composer and violinist

Mozart piano concerto n° 25 (KV 503), composed a few years before, in 1786, was probably an inspiration for Rouget de Lisle, as the first 12 notes of the anthem are played at the end of the first movement allegro maestoso (16th-17th minutes).

"La Marseillaise" was re-arranged by Hector Berlioz about 1830. For the game see 1830 (board game. Year 1830 ( MDCCCXXX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display

Robert Schumann, while setting some Heinrich Heine poems to music, used part of the Marseillaise for Heine's "The Two Grenadiers" poem at the end of the piece when the old French soldier dies (Opus 49, No. Robert Schumann, sometimes given as Robert Alexander Schumann (June 8 1810 &ndash July 29 1856 was a German Composer, Aesthete and influential Music critic Christian Johann Heinrich Heine ( December 13, 1797 – February 17, 1856) was a Journalist, Essayist and one of the 1). Wagner also quotes from the Marseillaise in his setting of a French translation of the poem. Schumann also incorporated the Marseillaise as a major motif in his overture, 'Hermann und Dorothea' inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. ˈjoːhan ˈvɔlfgaŋ fɔn ˈgøːtə (in English generally ˈgɝːtə 28 August 1749 22 March 1832 was a German writer

Liszt also wrote a piano transcription of the anthem. This article is about music For other uses see Transcription disambiguation page A piano transcription is a piece of music played on one or more pianos

In 1882, Pyotr Tchaikovsky used extensive notes from the Marseillaise to represent the invading French army in his 1812 Overture. The French invasion of Russia in 1812 was a turning point in the Napoleonic Wars. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote the Festival Overture "The Year 1812" in E major, Op This was an anachronism, as the Marseillaise was the French anthem in Tchaikovsky's day, but not Napoleon's. An anachronism (from the Greek "ana" " ανά " "against anti-" and "chronos" " χρόνος " Napoleon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821 was a French military and political leader who had a significant impact on the History of Europe.

Edward Elgar quoted the opening of La Marseillaise in his choral work The Music Makers, based on Arthur O'Shaughnessy's Ode, at the line "We fashion an empire's glory", where he also quotes the opening phrase of Rule, Britannia!. The Music Makers, op69 is a work for Contralto or Mezzo-soprano, chorus and Orchestra composed by Edward Elgar. Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy ( March 14, 1844 &ndash January 30, 1881) was a British Poet, born in London Ode is a Poem written in 1874 by the English poet Arthur O'Shaughnessy. Rule Britannia! is a British Patriotic song, originating from the Poem "Rule Britannia" by James Thomson and set to music

Serge Gainsbourg recorded a reggae version in 1978. Serge Gainsbourg ɡɛ̃'zbuʁ (2 April 1928 &ndash 2 March 1991 was a French Poet, Singer-songwriter, Actor and Reggae is a Music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s

Henrik Wergeland wrote a Norwegian version of the song in 1831, called The Norwegian Marseillaise. Henrik Arnold Thaulow Wergeland ( June 17, 1808 in Kristiansand – July 12, 1845 in Christiania) was a Norwegian Norwegian ( norsk) is a North Germanic Language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is an official language Year 1831 ( MDCCCXXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a

Lyrics

Note only the first verse (and sometimes the fifth and sixth) and the first chorus are sung today in France. There are some slight historical variations in the lyrics of the song; the following is the version listed at official website of the French Presidency^[2]

• FP National anthem (MP3 audio file). MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a Digital audio encoding format using a form of Lossy data compression

In popular culture

Movies

• In The Simpsons Movie this song's tune is Springfield's anthem. The Simpsons Movie is a 2007 American animated Comedy film based on the animated television series The Simpsons They claim they stole the tune from the French. The townspeople of Springfield's uses the tune to make an anthem to Springfield, declaring that the French have "a few things they do well, like making love, wine and cheese". Springfield is the fictional city in which the animated American sitcom The Simpsons is set
• In the 2007 film La Môme, the young Édith Piaf is shown singing the first verse and then the chorus of the song after her father's act re-enacting a true moment of the iconic chanteuse's life. Édith Piaf (December 19 1915&mdashOctober 10 1963 was a French singer and cultural icon who "is almost universally regarded as France's greatest popular singer
• The song was part of a famous scene in the film Casablanca in which French resistance sympathisers used the song to drown out the Nazi soldiers who were singing "Die Wacht am Rhein". Casablanca ( is an American Romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and The French Resistance is the collective name used for the French Resistance movements which fought against the Nazi German Nazism, which was a short name for National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus refers primarily to the Ideology and practices of the National Socialist German For other uses of "die Wacht am Rhein" see Watch on the Rhine (disambiguation. ^[4] Various portion of La Marseillaise appears as recurring theme throughout the film especially in the opening credits where the entire song is played and at the very end of the film. These two songs were juxtaposed in exactly the same way five years earlier, in Jean Renoir's 1937 film Grand Illusion. Jean Renoir (French ʁəˈnwaʁ ( September 15, 1894 – February 12, 1979) born in the Montmartre district of Paris Grand Illusion (French La Grande Illusion) is a 1937 war Film directed by Jean Renoir (1894–1979 the son of artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir traced the history of the song in the film he made the following year, "La Marseillaise". ^[5]
• Abel Gance's film Napoléon features a scene in which the song is first sung by the French masses. Abel Gance (25 October 1889 - 10 November 1981 was a French Film director, producer, Writer, Actor and editor best Napoléon ( 1927) is an epic silent French Film directed by Abel Gance that tells the story of the rise of Napoleon
• On the other hand, the movie The Brothers Grimm which takes place in a German country under Napoleonic occupation, the same kind of scene can be seen with Germans singing their traditional songs in a tavern only to switch to the Marseillaise when Napoleonic officers enter. The Brothers Grimm is a 2005 American adventure - fantasy Feature film directed by Terry Gilliam and primarily This is actually an error, as "La Marseillaise" was banned during Napoleon's rule. Napoleon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821 was a French military and political leader who had a significant impact on the History of Europe.
• In the 1981 movie, Escape to Victory, the final scene features the entire crowd of the stadium in occupied Paris spontaneously sing La Marseillaise at the end of the game. Escape to Victory is a 1981 Film about Allied Prisoners of war who are interned in a German prison camp during Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city
• In the 1937 French movie Grand Illusion, directed by Jean Renoir, that takes place during World War I, a group of French prisoners of war in a German POW camp spontaneously begin singing La Marseillaise in front of their German captors when it is announced that the French Army has won a significant victory. Grand Illusion (French La Grande Illusion) is a 1937 war Film directed by Jean Renoir (1894–1979 the son of artist Pierre-Auguste Jean Renoir (French ʁəˈnwaʁ ( September 15, 1894 – February 12, 1979) born in the Montmartre district of Paris World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All
• In Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World the captain of the ship warns the crew after a poor cannon exercise that their children will sing the Marseillaise. Master and Commander The Far Side of the World is a 2003 Film directed by Peter Weir and starring Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey, with
• In the Blackadder movie Blackadder: Back & Forth, when Blackadder returns from his trip through time, he discovers that England is now under French rule because Napoléon won the Battle Of Waterloo, due to the fact that Blackadder accidentally crushed The Duke Of Wellington with his time machine. Blackadder is the generic name that encompasses four series of an acclaimed BBC One historical sitcom, along with several one-off instalments Blackadder Back & Forth ( 1999) is a 34 minute short film based on the BBC mock-historical comedy series Blackadder. Napoleon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821 was a French military and political leader who had a significant impact on the History of Europe. In the Battle of Waterloo (Sunday 18 June 1815 near Waterloo Belgium Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, KP, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS ( c As his now-French guests walk up the stairs after conversing with him, they sing the first two lines of La Marseillaise.

Music

• Yannick Noah, "Aux Rêves"
• Django Reinhardt, "Echoes Of France"
• The Beatles, as part of "All You Need Is Love"
• Frank Sinatra, as part of "French Foreign Legion"
• In 1978, Serge Gainsbourg recorded a reggae version, "Aux armes et cætera", with Robbie Shakespeare, Sly Dunbar and Rita Marley in the choir in Jamaica, which resulted in him being threatened by members of an association of former paratroopers, who prevented him from singing it in a public concert. Yannick Noah (born May 18 1960, Sedan, Ardennes, France) is a former professional Tennis player from both France and Jean "Django" Reinhardt ( January 23, 1910 – May 16, 1953) was a Belgian Gypsy jazz Guitarist The Beatles were a pop and rock band from Liverpool, England formed in 1960 " All You Need Is Love " is a song written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon/McCartney. Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra (December 12 1915 &ndash May 14 1998 was an American singer and actor "French Foreign Legion" is a popular Song.The music was written by Guy Wood, the lyrics by Aaron Schroeder. Serge Gainsbourg ɡɛ̃'zbuʁ (2 April 1928 &ndash 2 March 1991 was a French Poet, Singer-songwriter, Actor and Sly and Robbie are one of Reggae 's most prolific and long lasting production teams Lowell "Sly" Fillmore Dunbar was born on 10 May 1952, in Kingston, Jamaica. Alpharita Constantia Anderson, better known as Rita Marley is the Widow of legendary Reggae musician Bob Marley, and a member of the trio the Jamaica (ˈdʒəˈmeɪkə} is an Island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length and as much as in width situated in the Caribbean Sea.
• The Slovenian industrial/techno music group Laibach's album Volk features a version, with Laibach's own lyrics. Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia (Republika Slovenija) is a Country in southern Central Europe bordering Italy to the west See also Folk (disambiguation, Volk (disambiguation Folk is one of the Germanic roots that mean "(of the people" or "our The album Volk is entirely composed of song which parody various national anthems. See also Folk (disambiguation, Volk (disambiguation Folk is one of the Germanic roots that mean "(of the people" or "our
• Allan Sherman, "You went the Wrong way Old King Louie" begins with a parody of the Marseillaise before heading into a recitative and then settling into a parody of You've come a long way from St. Allan Sherman (November 30 1924 – November 20 1973 was an American Musician, parodist, satirist, and Television producer Louis. His version begins, "Louis the Sixteenth was the king of France in 1789/He was worse than Louis the Fifteenth, he was worse than Louis the Fourteenth, he was worse than Louis the Thirteenth/He was the worst, since Louis the First!")
• There are various versions of the music. Louis XVI ( 23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793) Louis-Auguste de France, ruled as King of France and Navarre Louis XV (15 February 1710 &ndash 10 May 1774 ruled as King of France and of Navarre from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774 Early years Birth and ancestry Louis XIV was born in the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye on September 5 1638 and bore the Heir apparent For the cognac see Louis XIII de Rémy Martin. Louis XIII ( September 27, 1601 – May 14, 1643) Louis the Pious (778 &ndash 20 June 840) also called the Fair, and the Debonaire, was the King of Aquitaine from 781 and co-Emperor Sheet music can be found at [1]. An official version from the website of the French President can be found at the wayback machine's archive here: Wave File (660 KB). The President of the French Republic (Président de la République française colloquially referred to in English as the President of France, is France 's elected The Wayback machine originally referred to a fictional machine from a segment of the Cartoon The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show used to transport Mr

Video games

• Glass Joe from Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!, a Nintendo Entertainment System boxing game, uses part of the song as his ring theme. Punch-Out!!, known originally as, and later re-released as Punch-Out!! Featuring Mr The Nintendo Entertainment System (often abbreviated as NES or simply Nintendo) is an 8-bit Video game console that was released by
• In the video game Dynamite Cop, whenever a player confronts a huge chef name Alexander, a piece of the French national anthem can be heard first in the music. Dynamite Cop ( Dynamite Deka 2 in Japan ( 1998) is a Video game published by Sega and initially released in arcades on
• Also featured in Sid Meier's Civilization I and Civilization IV as diplomatic music for the French civilization. Sid Meier's Civilization is a Turn-based strategy computer game created by Sid Meier for MicroProse in 1991 Sid Meier's Civilization IV ( Civilization 4 or Civ4) is a Turn-based strategy computer game released in
• Featured in Worms (series) during use of the "Sheep Strike" weapon in which flaming sheep are unleashed via airplane on the selected target before exploding into flames. Worms is a series of turn-based computer games developed by Team17 Software.

Miscellany

• The Brisbane Lions Australian rules football (AFL) team theme song "The Pride of Brisbane Town". Brisbane Lions Australian Football Club (the trading name for the Brisbane Bears-Fitzroy Football Club) is an Australian Football League club based in Brisbane Australian (rules football, or simply known as football, footy or Aussie rules, is a Team sport played between two teams of 18 players The Australian Football League (AFL is both the professional Australian national competition in the Sport of Australian Rules Football and its highest Brisbane Lions Australian Football Club (the trading name for the Brisbane Bears-Fitzroy Football Club) is an Australian Football League club based in Brisbane
• The carillon of the town hall in the Bavarian town of Cham plays the Marsaillaise every day at 12. Bavaria ( German:, with an area of 70553 Km² (27241 square miles and almost 12 Cham (ˈkaːm is the capital of the district of Cham in the Upper Palatinate in Bavaria in Germany. 05 p. m. to commemorate the French Marshal Nicolas Luckner, who was born there. The Marshal of France (Maréchal de France and pl Maréchaux de France is a military distinction in contemporary France, not a Military rank. Nikolaus Count Luckner (* January 12, 1722 - January 4 1794 in Paris) was a German in French service who rose to become a ^[6]
• Hong Kong singer Hacken Lee integrated the anthem as an opening to his World Cup 1998 Theme Song "The strange encounters of a soccer fan"
• English language 'rugby song' version, as known in France amongst rugby-ites ^[7]
• In Monty Python's broadway musical Spamalot when confronted by French knights in the song "Run Away!"
• The 19th century Labour movement used a "Worker Marseillaise" (written 1864 by Jakob Audorf) that was later replaced by The Internationale. Hong Kong ( officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located on China 's south coast on the Pearl River Delta, and borders Hacken Lee (born 6 December 1967 is a award winning Hong Kong based Cantopop Singer, and Actor, Master of Ceremonies, Association The 1998 FIFA World Cup, the 16th staging of the World Cup was held in France from June 10 to July 12 after 60 years to celebrate the third edition scheduled Monty Python's Spamalot is a musical comedy "lovingly ripped off from" the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The labour movement or labor movement is a broad term for the development of a collective organization of working people, to campaign in their own interest for better The Internationale ( L'Internationale in French) is a famous socialist, communist, and Social-democratic It was famously sung on the way to the gallows by those sentenced to death after the Haymarket Riot.
• The song's theme was used by Jacques Offenbach in his Opera "Orpheus in the Underworld" to illustrate a revolution amongst the Olympic gods and goddesses with the lines "Aux armes Dieux et Demi-Dieux". Jacques Offenbach (born Jacob Offenbach 20 June 1819 in Cologne &ndash 5 October 1880 in Paris) was a German Orphée aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld, Opéra bouffe (or Opéra féerie in its revised version is an Operetta by Jacques
• The British comedy series 'Allo 'Allo! spoofed Casablanca by having the patriotic French characters start singing "La Marseillaise", only to switch to Deutschlandlied when Nazi officers enter their cafe. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located A British sitcom is a Situation comedy (sitcom produced in the United Kingdom. 'Allo 'Allo! was a long-running British sitcom broadcast on BBC1 from 1982 to 1992 comprising eighty-five episodes Das Deutschlandlied ("The Song of Germany" also known as Das Lied der Deutschen, "The Song of the Germans" has been used wholly or partially as the Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the common English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers
• Also featured in Isaac Asimov's short SF story, 'Battle-hymn' about how the national anthem is used as a subliminal advertising ploy.
• Featured in the Monty Python sketches, "A Man With a Tape Recorder Up His Nose" and "A Man With a Tape Recorder Up His Brother's Nose" and also "French lecture on sheep-aircraft"
• In the cartoon I Am Weasel, when the baboon tries to make a transatlantic bridge from the United States to France, he mistakenly builds it to Mexico. Monty Python (sometimes known as The Pythons) is the collective name of the six creators of Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British Television I Am Weasel is an American Animated television series, created by David Feiss and broadcast on the Cartoon Network. Once he reached the end, he sang a song with a tune similar to that of the French national anthem.

References

See also

• The "Belarusian Marseillaise", a patriotic song in Belarus
• The "Serbian Marseillaise" is a popular name for a Montenegrin patriotic song, There, o'er There!
• National anthem

External links

Official French government sites

• French Presidency website

Other sites

• La Marseillaise performed by Roberto Alagna
• La Marseillaise - Iain Patterson's comprehensive fansite features sheet music, history, and music files. The name " Belarusian Marseillaise " («Беларуская Марсельеза» has been used to refer to two Belarusian patriotic songs Montenegro ( British English) Montenegrin / Serbian: PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE THE LANGUAGES WITHOUT CONSENSUS ON THE TALK PAGE! Onamo 'namo ( Serbian: Онамо 'намо; in English: There over there) also known as the Serbian Marseillaise (Српска A national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that evokes and eulogizes the history traditions and struggles of its people recognized either by a nation's A full length six verse version of the anthem performed by David Zinman and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra & Chorus can be found in the Berlioz page. WikipediaWikiProject Classical music#Biographical_infoboxes --> David Zinman (b The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra ( BSO) is a major American Symphony orchestra based in Baltimore, Maryland.
• Easybyte — free easy piano arrangement of La Marseillaise
• Adminet-France