La Marseillaise, French national anthem composed in one night (April 24, 1792) during the French Revolution by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, a captain of the engineers and amateur musician. It came to be called ‘La Marseillaise’ because of its popular
While performance in Jean Renoir is widely celebrated, its importance to the politics of his films can be overlooked. La Marseillaise is one of Renoir's underexamined films, and, though the film has attracted scholarly attention, previous accounts have focused more on its political context than ...
–La Marseillaise “Shlomo Sand asks ironically and seriously whether Clio’s days are not numbered. In Twilight of History he retraces the broad lines of humanity’s evolution and questions our relationship to antiquity and Christianity as foundations of Western civilization … Sand recalls that the...
The long and checkered history of the “Deutschlandlied,” or “Song of the Germans,” began in 1841, when the poet Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben penned its lyrics as a rallying cry for supporters of a unified Germany. Set to a melody by famed composer Joseph Haydn, the song later b...
First of all, when I die I leave one of my thumbs to a cryogenic firm. The rest of me gets cremated (it’s more responsible ecologically); then when science refines the ability to reconstruct me from my frozen thumb cells, a la Jurassic Park, I’ll return—as a critic! I’ll “...
It was the perfect finishing touch for a memorable evening in world sport, rounded off by fireworks, massed singing of "La Marseillaise"(马赛曲) and the image of Deschamps holding the World Cup high above his head.What was NOT the reason for their final victory according to what French ...
La Marseillaise.Music and words. Postcard sent from Paris. No year date. 20p Sheffield Socialist Choir.10thAnniversary Songbook.1999. £5 Stand Together.A New Song Book. Hackney and Inslington Music Wokrshop.1978. £5 Old Ordnance Survey Maps – Alan Godfrey ...
Arc de Triomphe, massive triumphal arch in Paris, France, one of the world’s best-known commemorative monuments. Napoleon I commissioned the triumphal arch in 1806—after his great victory at the Battle of Austerlitz (1805)—to celebrate the military ac
“La Marseillaise” is the national anthem of France. The song was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg after the declaration of war by France against Austria. The National Convention adopted it as the Republic’s anthem in 1795. It acquired its nickname after being...
DOVER, England (AP) — One tunneling from France, the other digging from Britain, the two men smashed with pummeling jackhammers through the last slivers of rock separating their nations.