Roberto Alagna - La Marseillaise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXXstOweChc
The French national anthem isn’t Deutschland uber alles or Edelweiss?
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All I know is that in the last century, the French fields were irrigated by the blood of Americans simply because the French were too lazy to get off their asses and defend their own country.
In a word --- NO.
I am amazed that the Brits have lost their sense of history, context and reality. But then we're talking the BBC which may not be the sober entity it once was. It is sometimes indistinguishable from the U.S. MSM.
Context is everything; Historical isolation is the tool of the contemporary clueless of every country.
The Reign of Terror may be characterized as an excess, but the underlying causes extreme.
France is a much older country than the U.S., but a younger Republic. They had the long history of governmental abuse, and the explosion was inevitable.
We may be at a different place and in different times but the underlying political and social trajectory of the U.S. is not terribly different. Something has to give, when the "leaders" whatever their -ocracy are out of touch with the populace out of arrogance, stupidity or deliberate delusion.
Making a comparison, as is implied by the question, is food for only the uninformed, uninterested and unengaged parasitic populace that has been allowed to vote.
How that turns out remains to be seen...
It’s certainly nationalist, and isn’t every national anthem?
I read a book on this once, linguistically, French was largely spoken in the area where Paris is and surrounding. Though the other dialects may have often been related, still different, different ethnic peoples, say such as the Basque or Celtic peoples would be obvious examples.
A lot of people like the Marseillaise and just say it’s a good song. Mireille Mathieu does a splendid version of it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIxOl1EraXA Easy on the eyes as well and a striking rendition with the accompaniments.
Impure blood to me always meant the dreaded invaders. I don’t see that as really racist.
She can sing it!
The French may be cheese eating surrender monkeys, but they have a great national anthem. The Casablanca singing scene is great.
Liberal Translation of the Refrain:
“Citizens take up arms
Form your battalions
March, march
Spill the enemy’s blood
Over the land”
http://marseillaise.org/english/translation.html?liberal
Standard Translation of the Refrain:
“To arms citizens Form your battalions
March, march
Let impure blood
Water our furrows”
http://marseillaise.org/english/translation.html?standard
Nah - nothin’ wrong with that - that “impure blood” came from all the rich people being sent to the guillotine to help out the poor and downtrodden - just what we want to see happen here.....
For the French it sounds more overoptimistic than racist.