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

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.

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  • @impunitythebagpuss
    @impunitythebagpuss Жыл бұрын

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

  • @zhouwu
    @zhouwu4 жыл бұрын

    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

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    Жыл бұрын

    It brought tears to my eyes.

  • @jaytomson7052
    @jaytomson7052 Жыл бұрын

    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 !

  • @seascape35
    @seascape35 Жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @SpiderMike
    @SpiderMike4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @vivianlemottee3291

    @vivianlemottee3291

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @victorhrodriguez1159

    @victorhrodriguez1159

    Жыл бұрын

    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 !

  • @strafrag1
    @strafrag1 Жыл бұрын

    Vive La France. Happy Bastille Day 2022.

  • @thomasbleming7539
    @thomasbleming7539 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @OVERHERE-OVERHERE
    @OVERHERE-OVERHERE4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @ukiniakingdomex1837

    @ukiniakingdomex1837

    Жыл бұрын

    cool. just to tell u it vive

  • @pierrebonnafous3582

    @pierrebonnafous3582

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you sir.

  • @peterdewberry3082
    @peterdewberry3082 Жыл бұрын

    The most blood thirsty anthem.

  • @umauni710
    @umauni710 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @annwatchman6885
    @annwatchman6885 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @jaytomson7052
    @jaytomson7052 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @carmelodellolio454
    @carmelodellolio454 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @F8Tributo
    @F8Tributo Жыл бұрын

    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! ✊🏻

  • @mmck001
    @mmck001 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @paddywonka
    @paddywonka5 жыл бұрын

    Vive La France

  • @braian4113
    @braian4113 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @thomthumbe
    @thomthumbe4 жыл бұрын

    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).

  • @giancarlogiovanelli658
    @giancarlogiovanelli658 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @stephenmarcus9096
    @stephenmarcus90965 жыл бұрын

    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

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @perfesser944
    @perfesser944 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @SuperBruins12
    @SuperBruins124 жыл бұрын

    Incredible anthem

  • @hafeeya6007
    @hafeeya6007 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @andrewstewart5721
    @andrewstewart5721 Жыл бұрын

    Best version I’ve heard!

  • @pentameteriamb6196
    @pentameteriamb6196 Жыл бұрын

    The best song in the world. Vive La Marseillaise!

  • @aurelbalan1257
    @aurelbalan1257 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @leroilwaularoyalnetwork653
    @leroilwaularoyalnetwork653 Жыл бұрын

    Beautiful hymn, One of the best in the world.

  • @larrys9241
    @larrys9241 Жыл бұрын

    Vive la France !

  • @OVERHERE-OVERHERE
    @OVERHERE-OVERHERE4 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @solangejeanne9463
    @solangejeanne9463 Жыл бұрын

    Allez Mireille vas-y musique 🎶 🎵

  • @carmelodellolio454
    @carmelodellolio454 Жыл бұрын

    Che bello che è l'Inno Francese 💖💖💖

  • @viktorskatchkov8103
    @viktorskatchkov8103 Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @Sarimae23
    @Sarimae23 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @taroinoue1756
    @taroinoue1756 Жыл бұрын

    The greatest rendition of the greatest anthem of all time.

  • @danquigg8311
    @danquigg8311 Жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @Spaseebo
    @Spaseebo6 жыл бұрын

    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

    5 жыл бұрын

    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

    5 жыл бұрын

    C’est moi.

  • @serkering8712

    @serkering8712

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@zefyrisd69 agreed !

  • @camille3767

    @camille3767

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@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

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@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-hw7dm9ik4p4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @victorhrodriguez1159
    @victorhrodriguez1159 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @victorhrodriguez1159

    @victorhrodriguez1159

    Жыл бұрын

    VIVE LA FRANCE !

  • @stephensanfilippo1845
    @stephensanfilippo1845 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @davidsault9698
    @davidsault9698 Жыл бұрын

    One of the greatest songs ever created.

  • @julianpeterson2873
    @julianpeterson28736 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely lovely!

  • @mariobaiocchini3223

    @mariobaiocchini3223

    Жыл бұрын

    Mi sfogo ad ascoltare la marsaillaiese

  • @davidhubbell4980
    @davidhubbell4980 Жыл бұрын

    One of the greatest National Anthems.

  • @johnschiermeier3244
    @johnschiermeier3244 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @ngag5225
    @ngag5225 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @michaelt3798
    @michaelt37984 жыл бұрын

    No wonder the nazis in casablanca were so pissed

  • @davidgradwell8830

    @davidgradwell8830

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @philipr1567

    @philipr1567

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @user-qk9sl5wp6g
    @user-qk9sl5wp6g Жыл бұрын

    Fantastic performance

  • @richardthiele8363
    @richardthiele8363 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @jaylinn416
    @jaylinn416 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @marcohurtado8427
    @marcohurtado8427 Жыл бұрын

    Great Anthem.The Marsellesa.Beatiful.

  • @JBenjumea
    @JBenjumea Жыл бұрын

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

  • @richardrodriguez1742
    @richardrodriguez1742 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @anderlanderl8283
    @anderlanderl8283 Жыл бұрын

    Grandios

  • @salamich1
    @salamich1 Жыл бұрын

    Vive la Liberte!!

  • @floysolanochampollion
    @floysolanochampollion Жыл бұрын

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

  • @leroilwaularoyalnetwork653
    @leroilwaularoyalnetwork653 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @deg1232
    @deg1232 Жыл бұрын

    Vive le France

  • @shin-i-chikozima
    @shin-i-chikozima Жыл бұрын

    Indescribable beauty Indescribable comfort Indescribable feeling And something indescribable

  • @tibbitgroup1413
    @tibbitgroup1413 Жыл бұрын

    WOW.

  • @joannehughes6236
    @joannehughes6236 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @czeslawmeyer7871
    @czeslawmeyer7871 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @hubertgombaut3577
    @hubertgombaut3577 Жыл бұрын

    Mimi la meilleure !!!!

  • @MrCorroyer
    @MrCorroyer Жыл бұрын

    sublime vive la FRANCE

  • @petrolinachepkwony2920
    @petrolinachepkwony29204 жыл бұрын

    I love it

  • @TheLRider
    @TheLRider Жыл бұрын

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

  • @mariancatherine2745
    @mariancatherine27455 жыл бұрын

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

  • @ogakor

    @ogakor

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @alessandrocaboni5882

    @alessandrocaboni5882

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @stevenfacer4818

    @stevenfacer4818

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    Жыл бұрын

    Rather blood thirsty .I pictured the french revolution

  • @eduardomarques8018
    @eduardomarques8018 Жыл бұрын

    ¡¡¡¡ SUPREMA ,MAGNIFICA !!!!

  • @DurantImboden
    @DurantImboden Жыл бұрын

    Winceworthy lyrics, sung wonderfully.

  • @Strontium9T
    @Strontium9T4 жыл бұрын

    My mom loved her music

  • @kleberfarinha4449
    @kleberfarinha4449 Жыл бұрын

    Best ever!!

  • @unbekannternr.1353
    @unbekannternr.1353 Жыл бұрын

    Ouis Madame!

  • @Zampan0
    @Zampan0 Жыл бұрын

    Magnificent.

  • @franciscoguerrero2045
    @franciscoguerrero2045 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @tarewaste
    @tarewaste Жыл бұрын

    Now that is a national anthem, better than our dirge

  • @JCStaling
    @JCStaling Жыл бұрын

    I Love This, nonetheless.

  • @flipflopmcgurt3403
    @flipflopmcgurt3403 Жыл бұрын

    Well, that was pretty violent...

  • @mario2000x
    @mario2000x Жыл бұрын

    ❤️🌹❤️🌹❤️🌹❤️👍

  • @brucebisbey9554
    @brucebisbey9554 Жыл бұрын

    Wow, awesome,! Respect...

  • @BUCK3Y34991
    @BUCK3Y349914 жыл бұрын

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

  • @ogakor

    @ogakor

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks. My French stinks.

  • @dankjust0601
    @dankjust06014 жыл бұрын

    Very cool.

  • @Agapy8888
    @Agapy8888 Жыл бұрын

    Blasting it in my back yard.

  • @silviaruhsen4666
    @silviaruhsen4666 Жыл бұрын

    United strong

  • @jean-claudecalise7470
    @jean-claudecalise7470 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @paulcunningham2859
    @paulcunningham2859 Жыл бұрын

    And Americans are called blood thirsty!

  • @scoopermanu
    @scoopermanu4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @aguyonasiteontheinternet578

    @aguyonasiteontheinternet578

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @wallybazoum
    @wallybazoum Жыл бұрын

    Not exactly PG 13 is it !!!.

  • @Agapy8888
    @Agapy8888 Жыл бұрын

    I’m here today for Bastille day.

  • @user-hw7dm9ik4p
    @user-hw7dm9ik4p4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @lovrokriznar8487
    @lovrokriznar84875 жыл бұрын

    You mean English subtitles?

  • @alessandrocaboni5882
    @alessandrocaboni5882 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @ronthered138
    @ronthered138 Жыл бұрын

    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 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @mullauna
    @mullauna Жыл бұрын

    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 Жыл бұрын

    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 Жыл бұрын

    Come on Ukrainian, sing

  • @zoot21suit
    @zoot21suit Жыл бұрын

    Viva Ukraine 🇺🇦 👏♥

  • @cindyj5522
    @cindyj5522 Жыл бұрын

    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 Жыл бұрын

    Slava Ukraini!!!!

  • @enricobaldi4231
    @enricobaldi4231 Жыл бұрын

    Vive la France! Vive Mélenchon!