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La Marseillaise is a French film of 1938, directed by Jean Renoir.A vast political, social, and military panorama of the French Revolution up to the autumn of 1792, its many episodes range from the life of ordinary working people through the committed bourgeois struggling for change up to those in the upper echelons of society defending the status quo.
"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 ".
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle [a] (French: [klod ʒozɛf ʁuʒɛ d(ə) lil]; 10 May 1760 – 26 June 1836) was a French army officer of the French Revolutionary Wars.Lisle is known for writing the words and music of the Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin, which would later be known as La Marseillaise and become the French national anthem.
François Mireur (February 5, 1770 – July 9, 1798) was a French general who is notable for having sung the "War Song for the Army of the Rhine", later known as La Marseillaise, in 1792 when he volunteered for the newly created republican army.
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La Révolution française: les Années lumière (The French Revolution: Years of Hope), directed by Robert Enrico. The first part focuses on the events of the early days of the French Revolution. The film opens in 1774 with a young Maximillien Robespierre reading a document in front of King Louis XV's carriage in the College Louis le Grand. He ...
The Great Seal of France (French: Grand sceau de la République française) is the official seal of the French Republic. The seal features Liberty personified as a seated Juno wearing a crown with seven arches. She holds a fasces and is supported by a ship's tiller with a rooster printed on it.
Le Chant du Départ, anthem of the First French Empire (instrumental) " Le Chant du départ" (French: [lə ʃɑ̃ dy de.paʁ]; lit. ' The Song of Departure ') is a French revolutionary war song, composed by Étienne Méhul and written by Marie-Joseph Chénier in 1794.