tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275768344368542415.post7542668962976949291..comments2023-10-05T11:24:50.821+02:00Comments on Leisha's Random Thoughts & Ponderings: The Hymn of the FederationLeisha Camdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04768409807832229050noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275768344368542415.post-73701760946689997692009-06-15T00:06:46.873+02:002009-06-15T00:06:46.873+02:00It has nothing at all to do with “modern history”—...It has nothing at all to do with “modern history”—it's a pure propaganda piece. It is about a war that France declared out of spite, and that hadn't even started at the time the song was written.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17498929698193865496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275768344368542415.post-1131936683363634852009-06-14T22:42:53.169+02:002009-06-14T22:42:53.169+02:00What are you talking about?
I never said that the...What are you talking about?<br /><br />I never said that the French anthem <b>wasn't</b> a battle hymn, so I don't know what you're talking about. It's about their modern history, like I said. And their politics - kill the aristos and praise the Republic.<br /><br />Sorry, <b>your</b> politics. >:-)<br /><br />Paz, thanks for the url!Leisha Camdenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04768409807832229050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275768344368542415.post-27619828983819615242009-06-14T22:33:49.338+02:002009-06-14T22:33:49.338+02:00Bzzzt! Wrong, but thank you for playing.
The Fre...Bzzzt! Wrong, but thank you for playing.<br /><br />The French national anthem is a battle song, and quite a bloodthirsty one. Originally entitled <em>Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin</em> (<em>Battle song for the Rhine army</em>), it is now known as <em>La Marseillaise</em> because it was adopted by a corps of volunteers from Marseille early on in the war against Austria-Hungary (1792-1815).<br /><br />Here is a rough translation of the chorus:<br /><br /><em>To arms, citizens! / Form up your battalions! / Let us march, let us march, / May tainted blood / Water our furrows!</em><br /><br />The rest is about ferocious enemy soldiers (i.e. the Austro-Hungarian army) wanting to slit the throats of our wives and sons and enslave our proud nation, and about how we should be magnanimous and spare the poor reluctant conscripts, but show no mercy to their despotic leaders and their treacherous allies (i.e. exiled French nobility).Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17498929698193865496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275768344368542415.post-64160078762839029472009-06-14T21:19:32.370+02:002009-06-14T21:19:32.370+02:00meant to put this in too, http://fr.truveo.com/Amh...meant to put this in too, http://fr.truveo.com/Amhraacuten-na-bhFiann-and-Ireland-s-call/id/2657850108Pazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09567652179692699929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275768344368542415.post-15098871448478462642009-06-14T21:15:24.094+02:002009-06-14T21:15:24.094+02:00Great, thanks!! :-)Great, thanks!! :-)Leisha Camdenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04768409807832229050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275768344368542415.post-7490008234045294142009-06-14T21:14:25.337+02:002009-06-14T21:14:25.337+02:00http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amhrán_na_bhFiann
you...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amhrán_na_bhFiann<br />you'll get the words there<br />if you go here you'll hear Irelands call sang after anthem by a mostly 80,000 Irish crowdPazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09567652179692699929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275768344368542415.post-9935324419217478042009-06-14T21:04:59.319+02:002009-06-14T21:04:59.319+02:00I actually have never heard the Irish national ant...I actually have never heard the Irish national anthem. :-o zomg!! Must be rectified ... !!Leisha Camdenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04768409807832229050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275768344368542415.post-90137231357531373492009-06-14T12:17:08.320+02:002009-06-14T12:17:08.320+02:00Our anthem is about the 1916 rising against the En...Our anthem is about the 1916 rising against the English, I prefer it in Irish because some of the words loose meaning in English, But the Irish rugby team had to have a new 'Anthem' written because half the team is from Northern Ireland, its about brotherhood etc etc and IMO and in the opinion of others a piece of crapPazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09567652179692699929noreply@blogger.com