The French Revolutionary Anthem, La Marseillaise:

Come, children of the Fatherland (Homeland),
The day of glory has arrived!
Against us, tyranny
Has raised the bloodied banner,
Do you hear, in the countryside,
The howling of those ferocious soldiers?
They are coming right into your arms
To slit the throats of your sons and consorts!

To arms, citizens,
Form your battalions,
Let's march, let's march!
That impure blood
May water our furrows!

What does this horde of slaves,
Of traitors and conjured kings want?
For whom are these vile chains,
These long-prepared irons?
Frenchmen, for us, ah! What outrage
What fury it must arouse!
It is us they dare plan
To return to the old slavery!

To arms, citizens...

What! Foreign cohorts
Would make the law in our homes!
What! These mercenary phalanxes
Would strike down our warrior sons!
Great God ! By chained hands
Our brows would yield under the yoke
Vile despots would have themselves
The masters of our destinies!

To arms, citizens...

Tremble, tyrants and you traitors
The shame of all parties,
Tremble! Your parricidal schemes
Will finally receive their reward!
Everyone is a soldier to combat you
If they fall, our young heroes,
The earth will produce anew,
Against you, all are ready to fight!

To arms, citizens...

Frenchmen, as magnanimous warriors,
You bear or hold back your blows!
You spare those sorry victims,
Who arm against us with regret.
But not these bloodthirsty despots,
These accomplices of Bouillé,
All these tigers who, mercilessly,
Rip their mother's breast!

To arms, citizens...

Sacred love of the Fatherland,
Lead, support our avenging arms
Liberty, cherished Liberty,
Fight with thy defenders!
Under our flags, shall victory
Hurry to thy manly accents,
Shall thy expiring enemies,
See thy triumph and our glory!

To arms, citizens...


This was the song of the French Revolution( written in 1790). So forceful! So revolutionary! This describes the essential aspect of the aspirations of the French Revolution: It was a call for dividing the whole human history into pre and post 1789. The world was never the same again!

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