La Marseillaise, sung by Mireille Mathieu. American English subtitles.

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  • Performance at the foot of the Eiffel Tower in 1989 for its 100th anniversary. Mireille Mathieu sings La Marseillaise, the French national anthem. According to reports at the time, "Mathieu sang the anthem of France so grandly and shrewdly that tears welled up across the country, many patriotic citizens even needed medical treatment." Ten years later, she was awarded the Medal of the French Legion of Honor.
    My translation to American English, weighing literal accuracy, lyrical style, and contemporary US context.

Komentáře • 139

  • @impunitythebagpuss
    @impunitythebagpuss Před rokem +183

    And we Canadians thought the American Anthem was blood thirsty! Lol! I remember having to learn this in Grade 9 French class...1965!

  • @strafrag1
    @strafrag1 Před rokem +25

    Vive La France. Happy Bastille Day 2022.

  • @umauni710
    @umauni710 Před rokem +39

    Je suis un étranger, mais j'aime sa chanson d'amour naturelle à la France,
    qui a une histoire riche.

  • @zhouwu
    @zhouwu Před 4 lety +2265

    She's got some real passion. Very impressive! I think it's my favourite rendition of the current French national anthem in its glorious entirety!

    • @billmitchell5805
      @billmitchell5805 Před rokem +22

      So many just sing their National Anthem like in America, Passion shows it NOT JUST A SONG. What Whitney Houston at the Super Bowl performing America's National Anthem.

    • @olivemd
      @olivemd Před rokem +42

      It brought tears to my eyes.

  • @carmelodellolio454
    @carmelodellolio454 Před rokem +54

    I Nostri fratelli Francesi... 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️

  • @seascape35
    @seascape35 Před rokem +659

    The performance of La Marseillaise in the movie "Casablanca" symbolically silencing the Nazis who started out singing their own German song, is one of the most patriotic moments in cinematic history!

  • @thomasbleming7539
    @thomasbleming7539 Před rokem +711

    One of the greatest patriotic songs that have ever been sung.
    Vive France 🇫🇷!!!

  • @jaytomson7052
    @jaytomson7052 Před rokem +93

    I think a new fight is coming our way, and we shall win again! Je pense qu'un nouveau combat s'annonce, et nous gagnerons encore !

  • @annwatchman6885
    @annwatchman6885 Před rokem +513

    She still sends shivers down my spine, every time I hear this ❤

  • @SpiderMike
    @SpiderMike Před 4 lety +2075

    If that won't inspire you to fight for your country, nothing will.

    • @vivianlemottee3291
      @vivianlemottee3291 Před rokem +27

      That's for sure. I'd join the French Foreign Legion just so I could here it every morning during recruit training!!!!🇦🇺

    • @victorhrodriguez1159
      @victorhrodriguez1159 Před rokem

      Mike: The anthem of our country was composed based on this wonderful song LA MARSEILLAISSE !
      And we still use it TODAY fighting the TYRANNY !
      AL COMBATE CORRED BAYAMESES
      QUE LA PATRIA OS CONTEMPLA ORULLOSA
      NO TEMAIS UNA MUERTE GRORIOSA
      QUE MORIR POR LA PATRIA ES VIVIR
      EN CADENAS VIVIR ES VIVIR
      EN AFRENTA Y OPROBIO SUMIDOS
      DEL CLARIN ESCUCHAD EL SONIDO
      A LAS ARMAS VALIENTES, CORRED !

  • @OVERHERE-OVERHERE
    @OVERHERE-OVERHERE Před 4 lety +1032

    I am an American I am an Air Force veteran and I cannot say I cannot be more inspired viva LaFrance

  • @jaytomson7052
    @jaytomson7052 Před rokem +35

    I love this. Casablanca explained. Please share to 5 million, so my heart may at last, rest in peace.

  • @mmck001
    @mmck001 Před rokem +21

    How could you ever lose a rugby match after that! No wonder Father Jack stood up!

  • @andrewstewart5721
    @andrewstewart5721 Před rokem +55

    Best version I’ve heard!

  • @solangejeanne9463
    @solangejeanne9463 Před rokem +12

    Allez Mireille vas-y musique 🎶 🎵

  • @F8Tributo
    @F8Tributo Před rokem +616

    This anthem makes my blood boil, and my heart pound with courage! And I'm not even French! When this was written, the French people were having a revolution against their own tyrant, and 7 nations of Europe were also invading France at the same time. Les Marseilles is truly a rallying cry of the people to fight for their land, their freedom. The French have taught the world a lesson about human rights and democracy, a lesson still needed today. Respect! ✊🏻

  • @perfesser944
    @perfesser944 Před rokem +25

    La Marsellaise will always be the basic pattern on which any rabble-rousing march (L'Internationale, Can You Hear the People Sing from Les Mis, etc) is based.

  • @larrys9241
    @larrys9241 Před rokem +20

    Vive la France !

  • @giancarlogiovanelli658
    @giancarlogiovanelli658 Před rokem +8

    Questo con il nostro penso siano i più belli, senza nulla togliere a tutti gli altri, a ogni popolo piacerà il proprio.

  • @anderlanderl8283
    @anderlanderl8283 Před rokem +11

    Grandios

  • @braian4113
    @braian4113 Před rokem +59

    l'inno nazionale francese è il più bello in assoluto, ha una carica emotiva immensa

  • @carmelodellolio454
    @carmelodellolio454 Před rokem +30

    Che bello che è l'Inno Francese 💖💖💖

  • @paddywonka
    @paddywonka Před 5 lety +640

    Vive La France

  • @tibbitgroup1413
    @tibbitgroup1413 Před rokem +9

    WOW.

  • @OVERHERE-OVERHERE
    @OVERHERE-OVERHERE Před 4 lety +457

    Patriotism from the heart... I wonder how many Have been inspired to join the French foreign Legion by this inspired national anthem the French foreign Legion are one of the most respected special forces in our world... Viva LaFrance from an US Air Force Veteran Visited France in the early 80s.

  • @SuperBruins12
    @SuperBruins12 Před 4 lety +696

    Incredible anthem

  • @aurelbalan1257
    @aurelbalan1257 Před rokem +121

    Bravo Mireille Mathieu , ești Magnifică când cânți acest cântec ! Felicitări , Milioane de Felicitări pentru cea mai bună și cea mai Frumoasă Interpretă !

  • @leroilwaularoyalnetwork653

    Beautiful hymn,
    One of the best in the world.

  • @Sarimae23
    @Sarimae23 Před rokem +30

    Great voice, this chansonette was/&is one of the best france ever had.

  • @hafeeya6007
    @hafeeya6007 Před rokem +107

    I'm not French.... But it's my fav anthem...... I literally love her voice and this anthem 🖤✨🖤✨🖤✨

  • @stephenmarcus9096
    @stephenmarcus9096 Před 5 lety +944

    It's a truly magnificent anthem. It's my favorite anthem of all--and I'm not French! When I was at CCNY so many decades ago my European history professor Dante Puzo referred to La Marsellaise as the last great folk song of Western civilization.

    • @davidstout6051
      @davidstout6051 Před rokem +26

      Never knew the lyrics. For a country that is the laughingstock of the military world the French sure have a beyond the pale violent anthem. Pretty cool video though.

    • @DavidSmith-vz2hd
      @DavidSmith-vz2hd Před rokem +40

      by far the best anthem in the world sung with passion and conviction

  • @richardrodriguez1742
    @richardrodriguez1742 Před rokem +9

    When I was young in the 1940s America had Kate Smith, now we have ( fill in the black ) if you can find one.

  • @taroinoue1756
    @taroinoue1756 Před rokem +173

    The greatest rendition of the greatest anthem of all time.

  • @viktorskatchkov8103
    @viktorskatchkov8103 Před rokem +192

    For the first time I saw the lyrics of the France Hymn, and was deeply astonished by it's content.
    I understood one more time why for French people freedom, liberty and democracy are so important !
    Thanks

  • @thomthumbe
    @thomthumbe Před 4 lety +437

    My family and I was there! We stood underneath the Tower (back then it was all white gravel rock, not blacktop as it is today).

  • @danquigg8311
    @danquigg8311 Před rokem +200

    This was the first time I'd heard La Marseillaise all the way through, and the first time to read the translation. DAM! gave me goose bumps, made shivers run up my spine! As I was listening, I saw the Revolution, and more importantly I saw the Nazi troops marching through Pairs streets, I saw that famous photo of the French man BAWLING his eyes out as the enemy marched through his city. . . Thanks for posting!

  • @julianpeterson2873
    @julianpeterson2873 Před 6 lety +693

    Absolutely lovely!

  • @peterdewberry3082
    @peterdewberry3082 Před rokem +578

    The most blood thirsty anthem.

  • @pentameteriamb6196
    @pentameteriamb6196 Před rokem +82

    The best song in the world. Vive La Marseillaise!

  • @user-qk9sl5wp6g
    @user-qk9sl5wp6g Před rokem +25

    Fantastic performance

  • @stephensanfilippo1845
    @stephensanfilippo1845 Před rokem +71

    An overwhelmingly great performance of perhaps the greatest song of the world.

  • @czeslawmeyer7871
    @czeslawmeyer7871 Před rokem +9

    Came here from ricks cafe ..love that scene in Casablanca

  • @victorhrodriguez1159
    @victorhrodriguez1159 Před rokem +24

    MERVILLEUX ! BEAU !
    IL FAIT VOTRE COEUR BATIR DANS LA POITRINE !

  • @davidsault9698
    @davidsault9698 Před rokem +41

    One of the greatest songs ever created.

  • @Spaseebo
    @Spaseebo Před 6 lety +1017

    I wonder how many non-French speakers understand that the words speak of spilling the enemies' "impure blood" (sang impur) into the furrows of the ground? Powerful.

    • @ogakor
      @ogakor  Před 5 lety +135

      Powerful, indeed, but it was not intended to be a literal translation. You're right-- many non-French speakers will probably not understand the context of "sang impur." As I mentioned in the note accompanying the post, I weighed "literal accuracy, lyrical style, and contemporary US context."

    • @inkyguy
      @inkyguy Před 5 lety +26

      C’est moi.

    • @serkering8712
      @serkering8712 Před 5 lety +19

      @@zefyrisd69 agreed !

    • @camille3767
      @camille3767 Před 5 lety +254

      @@zefyrisd69 What are you talking about..... the french wanted a bloodbath and it turned up to be an unnecessary bloodbath, the King and the Queen were not tyrants, they were young and naive, the amount of people killed in the name of freedom is not a proud moment in the history of France, and worse, it's celebrated on the 14/07 every years, like it was a celebration of death. The commoners of France executed innocents, for what?, because they were noble or richer. I am french, and I do cry every time I hear La Marseillaise, but I am also realistic, that french revolution achieved nothing.

    • @EPICDAYTONBOTT
      @EPICDAYTONBOTT Před 4 lety +38

      @@zefyrisd69 wow thanks for teaching me something new and very interesting, in my opinion the song lyrics have become even more powerful. It is very interesting reading the lyrics to the song in context to the revolution.

  • @user-hw7dm9ik4p
    @user-hw7dm9ik4p Před 4 lety +290

    so proud be a french defender as mimi,
    she who stands and sings for sincere of her heart

  • @salamich1
    @salamich1 Před rokem +10

    Vive la Liberte!!

  • @johnschiermeier3244
    @johnschiermeier3244 Před rokem +60

    I am part French through my 6th great grandfather and during the French/English War is when my French ancestors came to the American colonies but to this day my family's French heritage has never left our hearts.

  • @davidhubbell4980
    @davidhubbell4980 Před rokem +56

    One of the greatest National Anthems.

  • @MrCorroyer
    @MrCorroyer Před rokem +11

    sublime vive la FRANCE

  • @michaelt3798
    @michaelt3798 Před 4 lety +1148

    No wonder the nazis in casablanca were so pissed

    • @davidgradwell8830
      @davidgradwell8830 Před rokem +3

      Between Bogie and this song, they should've seen it coming!

    • @philipr1567
      @philipr1567 Před rokem +8

      Victor Laszlo: "Play La Marseillaise. Play it!"
      One of the great moments in a great film.

  • @ngag5225
    @ngag5225 Před rokem +96

    Qué cosa más linda y sublime. Se me eriza todo el cuerpo por la emoción.

  • @deg1232
    @deg1232 Před rokem +10

    Vive le France

  • @marcohurtado8427
    @marcohurtado8427 Před rokem +16

    Great Anthem.The Marsellesa.Beatiful.

  • @unbekannternr.1353
    @unbekannternr.1353 Před rokem +3

    Ouis Madame!

  • @jaylinn416
    @jaylinn416 Před rokem +17

    1989. That was a good year for freedom and liberty!

  • @JBenjumea
    @JBenjumea Před rokem +42

    Chapeaux to the lyrics of the hymn, the music and the singer. Vive la France!

  • @hubertgombaut3577
    @hubertgombaut3577 Před rokem +7

    Mimi la meilleure !!!!

  • @richardthiele8363
    @richardthiele8363 Před rokem +28

    Reminds me of how stirring the scene in “Casablanca” was where the French patriots drowned out the Germans.

  • @eduardomarques8018
    @eduardomarques8018 Před rokem +17

    ¡¡¡¡ SUPREMA ,MAGNIFICA !!!!

  • @petrolinachepkwony2920
    @petrolinachepkwony2920 Před 4 lety +238

    I love it

  • @mario2000x
    @mario2000x Před rokem +6

    ❤️🌹❤️🌹❤️🌹❤️👍

  • @Zampan0
    @Zampan0 Před rokem +18

    Magnificent.

  • @floysolanochampollion
    @floysolanochampollion Před rokem +37

    Increíble canto de comando al igual que el cubano y el mexicano .con estos himnos cualquier ciudadano se vuelve . Patriota.

  • @kleberfarinha4449
    @kleberfarinha4449 Před rokem +13

    Best ever!!

  • @leroilwaularoyalnetwork653

    Très belle chanson, l'une des meilleures au Monde.

  • @shin-i-chikozima
    @shin-i-chikozima Před rokem +14

    Indescribable beauty
    Indescribable comfort
    Indescribable feeling
    And
    something indescribable

  • @TheLRider
    @TheLRider Před rokem +13

    I absolutely love it and Angerland has God Save The Fin Queen. Says it all. At least we have Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

  • @DurantImboden
    @DurantImboden Před rokem +21

    Winceworthy lyrics, sung wonderfully.

  • @mariancatherine2745
    @mariancatherine2745 Před 5 lety +923

    I love the melody of the song. But I'm quite surprised with the lyrics

    • @ogakor
      @ogakor  Před 4 lety +183

      You and me both, especially when I heard from actual linguists and historians! My French stinks, but the song is great.

    • @alessandrocaboni5882
      @alessandrocaboni5882 Před rokem +37

      The lyrics where prophetic. (See new nazi Russia & its victims). Slava Ukrajini 🇺🇦

    • @stevenfacer4818
      @stevenfacer4818 Před rokem

      I mean, Cut the throats of children! Spill their blood! YIKES! I understand it all but oh my.... And I absolutely love their anthem. Viva La France!

    • @cjb8010
      @cjb8010 Před rokem

      We are all descendants of blood and gore. It just so happens that the free countries of the west have done far more with their blood and gore.
      No blood, no gore, no us.

    • @kaminiabeykoon8113
      @kaminiabeykoon8113 Před rokem +21

      Rather blood thirsty .I pictured the french revolution

  • @JCStaling
    @JCStaling Před rokem +8

    I Love This, nonetheless.

  • @franciscoguerrero2045
    @franciscoguerrero2045 Před rokem +6

    Bon soir.
    Je vous eccoutte le lettre aux Francais. Je souis Mexicanie me c'est au Francaise Himme. Cebiene que ce chante aux Francais.
    Mercy avouir.

  • @flipflopmcgurt3403
    @flipflopmcgurt3403 Před rokem +13

    Well, that was pretty violent...

  • @Strontium9T
    @Strontium9T Před 4 lety +211

    My mom loved her music

  • @tarewaste
    @tarewaste Před rokem +25

    Now that is a national anthem, better than our dirge

  • @brucebisbey9554
    @brucebisbey9554 Před rokem +13

    Wow, awesome,! Respect...

  • @Agapy8888
    @Agapy8888 Před rokem +9

    Blasting it in my back yard.

  • @joannehughes6236
    @joannehughes6236 Před rokem +53

    Love the French National Anthem it is much better than God Save The Queen.

  • @dankjust0601
    @dankjust0601 Před 4 lety +87

    Very cool.

  • @silviaruhsen4666
    @silviaruhsen4666 Před rokem +6

    United strong

  • @BUCK3Y34991
    @BUCK3Y34991 Před 4 lety +207

    Beautiful song. But like, battalions is a word in English too...

    • @ogakor
      @ogakor  Před 4 lety +35

      Thanks. My French stinks.

  • @jean-claudecalise7470
    @jean-claudecalise7470 Před rokem +6

    Que boca dios mio !?!?!?!?!

  • @wallybazoum
    @wallybazoum Před rokem +8

    Not exactly PG 13 is it !!!.

  • @scoopermanu
    @scoopermanu Před 4 lety +253

    full of passion ,unlike our boring 'Gawd save the Queen '

    • @aguyonasiteontheinternet578
      @aguyonasiteontheinternet578 Před rokem +5

      in my opinion, Rule Britannia or Land of Hope and Glory is much better than the 19th century tune.

  • @Agapy8888
    @Agapy8888 Před rokem +5

    I’m here today for Bastille day.

  • @paulcunningham2859
    @paulcunningham2859 Před rokem +16

    And Americans are called blood thirsty!

  • @user-hw7dm9ik4p
    @user-hw7dm9ik4p Před 4 lety +187

    we should live in atmosphere with no king,
    they who sang at 1789, paid by blood to proof that

  • @lovrokriznar8487
    @lovrokriznar8487 Před 5 lety +75

    You mean English subtitles?

  • @alessandrocaboni5882
    @alessandrocaboni5882 Před rokem +4

    I thought the music marvellous. But the text too hard. Now when

  • @ronthered138
    @ronthered138 Před rokem +12

    Yikes! I never knew what the lyrics were about. Has anyone ever heard a more bloodthirsty anthem? Let us know in the comments. 😬

  • @Sarimae23
    @Sarimae23 Před rokem +11

    and...btw, it should be sung everwhere in franc eand acted with it, against those fascist EU

  • @mullauna
    @mullauna Před rokem +8

    A lot of French people think it's ridiculous to sing about spilling impure Prussian/German blood into the soil of France while the democratically elected German Chancellor takes the salute in Paris. The Algerians also refuse to revise their anthem's verbal attack on France which comes across as idiotic today.

  • @francisebbecke2727
    @francisebbecke2727 Před rokem +7

    Stirring song, but the lyrics are very blood thirsty, but so are parts of the Star Spangled Banner. I would have liked some images of Charlemagne, Jon of Arc, Louie XIV and Louie XVI, Voltaire, Napoleon. De Lesseps, Louis Braille, Louis Pasture, Marshal Petain, Marshal Foch, PM Clem-ensue, Charles De Gaul, Joc Le Clare, Pepe La Pue, and Macron. Notice I left out Roe-sue because he was an ass. Maybe I should have put in Guillotine. for coming up with a "merciful" way to dispatch problem people.

  • @brianquinn6014
    @brianquinn6014 Před rokem +15

    Come on Ukrainian, sing

  • @zoot21suit
    @zoot21suit Před rokem +18

    Viva Ukraine 🇺🇦 👏♥

  • @cindyj5522
    @cindyj5522 Před rokem +7

    I see this lovely, gripping rendition as an exercise to justify a nice glass of wine and a charcuterie instead of a call to arms. The French seem more inclined toward irritation and sharp language than real patriotism...in my experience.

  • @aleksiklove2755
    @aleksiklove2755 Před rokem +15

    Slava Ukraini!!!!

  • @enricobaldi4231
    @enricobaldi4231 Před rokem +3

    Vive la France! Vive Mélenchon!