What's your favourite national anthem?

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  1. Ole Ole

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    Well, I would act chauvinist, but I like a lot of the different hymns of french state, either when we were a kingdom or republic.


    The current one :


    The song of departure, official anthem during a big part of the napoleonic era :

    Victory sings

    Opens its gate for us
    Liberty guides our steps
    And from North to South
    The horn of war
    Rang the battle hour
    Tremble, enemies of France
    Kings drunk on blood and pride
    Sovereign People comes forth
    Tyrants go down to your graves
    The Republic is calling us

    Let's know how to vanquish or let's know how to perish
    A Frenchman must live for her [the Republic]
    For her [the Republic] a Frenchman must die

    Do not fear that our motherly eyes shall weep
    From us begone, cowardly grief!
    We shall triumph when you take up arms
    It is kings who should shed a tear
    We gave you life
    Warriors, it is no longer yours
    All your days belong to the Motherland
    She is your mother more than we are
    (Chorus)

    May their fathers' blade be placed in the hands of the brave,

    Remember us on the Field of Mars (on the battlefield)
    Baptise in the blood of kings and slaves
    The blade thus blessed by your elders
    And by bringing back home
    Both wounds and virtues
    Return to shut our eyes
    When tyrants are no more
    (Chorus)


    The fates of Barra and Viala fill us with envy

    They died, but they prevailed
    Cowards crushed by the weight of years never truly knew life
    He who dies for the People has lived
    You are brave, so are we
    Lead us against Tyrants
    Republicans are men
    Slaves are children
    (Chorus)

    Leave, valiant husbands! Battles are your feasts

    Leave, models for warriors
    We shall pick flowers to crown your heads
    Our hands shall braid laurels
    And if the temple of memory (death)
    Should open for your victorious manes
    Our voices shall sing your glory
    Our wombs shall bear your avengers
    (Chorus)

    And we, sister of the heroes, we who of Hymenaios marriage's sweet bonds
    Are still ignorant
    If someday to join his fate to ours
    A citizen should express the wish
    Let them come back within our walls
    Embellished with glory and liberty
    And let their blood, in battle
    Have spilled for equality
    (Chorus)


    On the iron, before God, we swear to our fathers

    to our wives, to our sisters
    to our representatives, to our sons, to our mothers
    that we shall annihilate oppressors
    Everywhere, into the deep night
    by sinking the infamous royalty
    the French shall give to the world
    peace and liberty
    (Chorus)
     
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    As long as it will be Beethoven's Ode to Joy, I'd have to go with the European anthem.

     
  4. VotreAltesse

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    I forgot something funny about "La Marseillaise". It was too the anthem of Russia between 1917 and 1918. It was quickly abandonned because France was considered to be too much related to the "bourgeoisie".
     
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    If you love your country and live in it, your national anthem should be that of your country. For me in the US, it is the Star Spangled Banner.

    If you live in the US and are a citizen of the US, anything else means you haven't assimilated.
     
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