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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 ...
Lolote (wa), a popular love song by Jacques Bertrand, which has become a kind of regional anthem of the Charleroi region. The tune is also taken up, 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 .
" 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. It was the official anthem of the French Empire, [2] and it is currently the unofficial regional anthem of French Guiana and the presidential ...
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 ...
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.'"
The song was inspired by Napoleon I's campaign in Egypt and Syria. It represents a chivalric composition of the aspirations of a crusader knight in a style typical of the First French Empire. Hortense (Napoleon I's stepdaughter and the mother of Napoleon III) indicated in her Memoires that she wrote the music when she lived at Malmaison. During ...
French military songs (1 C, 3 P) S. Songs of the French Resistance (3 P) Pages in category "French patriotic songs" The following 10 pages are in this category, out ...
"L'Empereur, sa femme et le petit prince" is a French folk song of the second half of the 19th century, making a reference to Napoleon III, Empress Eugénie and the Prince impérial.