The author's name is Claude de Lisle. He was an engineer captain of the Strasbourg City Guard during the French Revolution. He often visited the home of Dietrich, a famous patriot in Alsace and mayor of Strasbourg.
in April p>1792, famine enveloped Strasbourg. The life of mayor Dietrich's family is also very poor. One day, there was only wartime bread and a few slices of ham on the dining table. Dietrich looked at De Lear peacefully and said, "As long as there is no shortage of lively atmosphere in the citizens' festivals and as long as the soldiers are not lacking in courage, although we are not rich in food, it is nothing!" He then said to his daughter, "There is still the last bottle of wine in the cellar. Let's drink to freedom and our motherland.
There is going to be a patriotic celebration in Strasbourg. De Lear should drink a few glasses of wine and write a song that can inspire people's fighting spirit! " The daughters applauded in unison, brought wine, and filled the glasses for their father and young officers until the wine was finished.
it's midnight, and the cold is biting. Despite the fantasy, De Lear returned to his room with great excitement, composing music first, then writing lyrics, and then composing music first. Which comes first, the notes or the poems? Is it music or poetry? He can't tell the difference. He just sang vertically, but he didn't write anything. He gradually felt tired and fell asleep on the piano.
when I wake up in the morning, the songs at night appear in the memory of examples like dreams. He wrote the lyrics in one breath, scored the notes, and then ran to Dietrich's house. He found Dietrich hoeing winter lettuce in the vegetable shed. The old patriot immediately woke up his wife and daughter, and called several friends who loved music and could play. Accompanied by Dietrich's eldest daughter, De Lear sang enthusiastically.
after listening to the first section, everyone's heart surged; Hearing the second quarter, everyone shed tears; When I heard the last verse, people's enthusiasm broke out. Dietrich, his wife, daughters, young officers and friends cried and hugged each other. They cheered: the national anthem of the motherland has been found!
this new song, originally named "March of the Rhine Army", was first played by De Lear in Strasbourg on April 24th, 1792, and soon spread all over the country. Three months later, the workers' revolutionary team in Marseille, France's second largest city, sang this song and marched into Paris. This song must be played at the beginning and end of every meeting of the club in Marseille; Masai also sang this song on the March. Hence the name "La Marseillaise".
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The author's name is Claude de Lisle. During the French Revolution, there were many battle songs that inspired people's morale, and the most popular and popular one was the paean to freedom-the Marseillaise.
In the period of Louis XVI, France, various social contradictions intensified day by day, and the emerging bourgeoisie sympathized with the peasants' sufferings. Influenced by the jacobins in Paris, Arnault led the citizens of Marseilles to design and seize the fortress, get weapons and expel the duke. They held a rally and passed a resolution to organize 5 volunteers to March into Paris to rescue the parliamentarians who sympathized with the reform. Marseilles citizens actively joined the army and marched forward singing Marseilles, which opened the prelude of the French Revolution. The March song "La Marseillaise" written in this period has also become a hymn to inspire morale.
after Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor in 184, he ordered the national anthem of La Marseillaise to be cancelled. In 1815, Louis Stanislas Xavier was restored and the national anthem was changed to "The Prince of France returned to Paris"; The July Revolution broke out in 183. On the barricade of fighting in Paris, "La Marseillaise" sounded again; In 1879, the French government redesignated La Marseillaise as the national anthem. Napoleon did not ban the singing of Marseillaise.
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