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An Acceptable Marseillaise

It’s a tune we all know and love. And who can deny getting a bit sentimental during the scene in Casablanca when they sing it? But as all good traditionalists know, the lyrics to le Marseillaise are downright vulgar, republican, and revolutionary. So here we have reproduced the thoroughly-acceptable lyrics used in the die-hard Catholic region of la Vendée, and supposedly still sung today:

Allons armée
catholique,
Le jour de gloire est arrive.
Contre-nous de la République,
L’étendard sanglant est levé,
L’étendard sanglant est levé!
Ontondez-vous dans tchiés campagnes
Les cris impurs diaux scélérats?
Le venant duchque dans vous bras
Prendre vous feuilles et vous femmes.
Aux armes Vendéens! Formez vous bataillons!
Marchons! Marchons!
Le sang daux Bieux rougira nos seillons!

Perhaps this could be a marching tune for the annual Paris-Chartres pilgrimage?

Published at 9:44 pm on Wednesday 9 June 2004. Categories: France History Monarchy.
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