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YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. In 2012, "Je m'appelle Funny Bear" by German virtual singer Gummibär became the first French-language music video to reach 100 million views. In 2023, Indila's song "Dernière Danse" became the first music video in French to reach 1 billion views.
The French National Convention adopted it as the First Republic's anthem in 1795. The song acquired its nickname after being sung in Paris by Fédéré (volunteers) from Marseille marching to the capital. The song is the first example of the "European march" [clarification needed] anthemic style. The anthem's evocative melody and lyrics have ...
The Chanson de l'Oignon (French pronunciation: [ʃɑ̃sɔ̃ də lɔɲɔ̃]; "Song of the Onion") is a French marching song from around 1800 but the melody can be found earlier in Ettiene Nicolas Mehul’s overture to La chasse de Juene Henri in 1797. According to legend, it originated among the Old Guard Grenadiers of Napoleon Bonaparte's ...
[9] La Carmagnole, and revolutionary song in general, was viewed as an important part of the new French Republic, and of being a Frenchman. La Carmagnole was particularly popular because, like the song Ah! ça ira ("It'll do", "Everything will be OK"), it contained simple lyrics that illiterate people could easily learn and understand, and ...
"On to Paris", music by Gustav Luders, lyrics by Joseph W. Herbert "On to Paris", music by Maury Rubens and Russell Tarbox, lyrics by Charles O. Locke and Frank Bannister "Once in Paris" by Lou Bennett Trio "One Day in Paris" by Martha & the Muffins "One Night in Paris" by 10cc "One Night in Paris" by Casseopaya "One Night in Paris" by Jimmy Pursey
In addition to works for piano solo or violin and piano, the Belle Époque was famous for its large repertory of songs (mélodies, romanze, etc.). The Italians were the greatest proponents of this type of song, its greatest champion being Francesco Paolo Tosti. Though Tosti's songs never completely left the repertoire, salon music generally ...
From this song, Joseph-Denis Doche's tune was taken up and still used today for two Walloon songs that are very well known in dialectal Wallonia: Li trousers trawé (The holed trousers) by Charles du Vivier de Streel, which takes up the same canvas from the memories of a former member of the Grande Armée, originally from Liège.
French popular music; List of artists who reached number one on the French Singles Chart This page was last edited on 6 January 2025, at 23:32 (UTC). Text is ...