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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 ...
"La Marseillaise" [a] is the national anthem of France. It was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg after the declaration of war by the First French Republic against Austria, and was originally titled "Chant de guerre pour l'Armée du Rhin ".
The song is a musical tableau: each of the seven stanzas is sung by a different character or group of characters: The first stanza is the discourse of a deputy cheering his soldiers and encouraging them for the fight for the Republic. The second stanza is the song of a mother offering the life of her son to the fatherland.
Carl Schurz, in v. 1, ch. 14, of his Reminiscences., reports from exile in England that upon Napoleon III's coup d'état of 2 December 1851, "Our French friends shouted and shrieked and gesticulated and hurled opprobrious names at Louis Napoleon and cursed his helpers, and danced the Carmagnole and sang 'Ça Ira.'"
English translation Veillons au salut de l'empire, Let's ensure the salvation of the Empire, Veillons au maintien de nos lois; Let's ensure the maintenance of our laws; Si le despotisme conspire, If despotism conspires, Conspirons la perte des rois! We conspire the downfall of kings! Liberté! Liberté! que tout mortel te rende hommage! Liberty!
Lolote a popular love song by Jacques Bertrand, which has become a kind of regional anthem of the Charleroi region. The tune is also taken, from Lolote , by the Belgian students for bawdy songs: Le fusil , L'ancien étudiant and the song of the students of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of Gembloux .
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Pages in category "Songs about Napoleon" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Bonaparte's Retreat;