A heartbreaking tribute to Le Bataclan victims and injured people by a pianist

John Lennon's "Imagine" made into a comic strip!

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England 2-0 France

La Marseillaise sung at Wembley Stadium

during England/France

Nov.17!

The French national anthem, La Marseillaise, was penned by army engineer Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle during the French revolutionary wars in 1792. It was originally written as a marching song and the lyrics can only be described as bloodthirsty.

The anthem evokes brutal images of cutting the throats of the enemy and “watering” the fields with their “impure” blood.

Rouget de Lisle called his composition Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin – War song for the Rhine Army – but it became known as the La Marseillaise after being sung by revolutionary volunteers from Marseille marching on Paris in 1792.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/la-marseillaise-lyrics-the-meaning-and-translation-of-the-french-national-anthem-a3116306.html

Allons enfants de la Patrie,

Le jour de gloire est arrive!

Contre nous de la tyrannie,

L'etendard sanglant est leve,

Entendez-vous dans les campagnes

Mugir ces feroces soldats?

Ils viennent jusque dans vos bras

Egorger vos fils, vos compagnes!

Aux armes, citoyens,

Formez vos bataillons,

Marchons, marchons!

Qu'un sang impur

Abreuve nos sillons!

TRANSLATION 1

Arise children of the fatherland

The day of glory has arrived

Against us tyranny's

Bloody standard is raised

Listen to the sound in the fields

The howling of these fearsome soldiers

They are coming into our midst

To cut the throats of your sons and consorts

To arms citizens

Form your battalions

March, march

Let impure blood

Water our furrows

TRANSLATION 2

Let's go children of the nation

The day of glory has arrived

Against us stands tyranny

The bloody banner is raised

Do you hear in the countryside

The roar who those ferocious soldiers?

They are coming right into our arms

To cut the throats of our sons, our women

To arms citizens

Form your battalions

Let's march, let's march!

Let an impure blood

Water our furrows

US LIBRARY OF CONGRESS TRANSLATION

Ye sons of France, awake to glory,

Hark, hark! what myriads bid you rise!

Your children, wives and white-haired grandsires.

Behold their tears and hear their cries! (repeat)

Shall hateful tyrants, mischiefs breeding,

With hireling hosts, a ruffian band,

Affright and desolate the land,

While peace and liberty lie bleeding?

To arms, to arms, ye brave!

The avenging sword unsheath,

March on, march on!

All hearts resolv'd

On victory or death!

http://sabironlangues.typepad.fr/tempob21/2015/11/la-marseillaise-en-phon%C3%A9tique-.html

WHAT HAPPENED ON FRIDAY 13

AT NIGHT IN PARIS?

WHY

DID

THE TERRORISTS

ATTACK

PARIS?

WHAT DID IT CHANGE?

AND

WHAT

NEXT?

LEARN MORE...

"You probably heard that last Friday evening something really bad happened.

Le P’tit Libé is giving you some information to try to understand what happened.

But don’t hesitate to ask your parents if you’re not sure you understood everything!

This special edition was written by Sophie Gindensperger, Isabelle Hanne and Elsa Maudet. A big thank you to the pedopsychiatrists Marie-Rose Moro et Thierry Baubet for their thoughtful proofreading, and to the many people who helped us with the translation."