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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
1496 Posts |
 Posted - 07/14/2006 : 01:14:56
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Well Happy Bastille Day!
(Trois acclamations pour le blanc bleu et rouge!)
One of the best national anthems!
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 07/14/2006 : 02:53:49 [Permalink]
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I have always found La Marseillaise stirring. Perhaps it's because my ancestry is French. But then again, they were Huguenots, so maybe it shouldn't inspire me so.
No matter; thanks, Chip!
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 07/14/2006 : 05:14:17 [Permalink]
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La Marseillaise is a wonderful song. It's stirred me ever since I first heard it sung, I think in "Casablanca." I sometimes kid, but France was America's first ally. Happy Bastille Day, all!
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 07/14/2006 : 05:58:11 [Permalink]
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Yes, yes, were it not for France, we would all be singing God Save the Queen (save her from what, I couldn't say. The ways of Englishmen are passing strange -- out in the noon-day sun; that sort of thing). The Comte d'Rochambeau and Marquis d'Lafayette Should be celebrated as American heroes. Benjamin Franklin should be canonized for getting the French involved.
Vive la France!
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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