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Marseilles Hymn. |
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ROUGET D« LISLE, 1792. |
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*"Tho Marseillaise" was composed, both the words and the musie,on the night preceding April 2-t'.n , 1792. It was intended by Do Lisle to be the song of the French Army Corps of Strassbnrg. \\ was not takonup with any avidity by this Army Corps however. When a few weeks later, Marseilles sent 516 men toforce Louis XVI to reason, this battalion made the song their own. They sang it when they entered Parts, July 29t.n,1792, and it received its baptism of blood duringthe attack onthe Tuileries,August 9-10,1792. Before the Mar�seillaise took up the song it was entitled _"Chant du Guerriers du Bas Rhin'.' |
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