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  • (Soundbite of music) HOFFMAN: That's from the "Hymne a la Victoire," or "Hymn to Victory" by Luigi Cherubini, a celebratory piece from 1796, during the French Revolution.

    Revolutionary Sounds: A Bastille Day Music Mix 2009

  • (Soundbite of music) HOFFMAN: That's from the "Hymne a la Victoire," or "Hymn to Victory" by Luigi Cherubini, a celebratory piece from 1796, during the French Revolution.

    Revolutionary Sounds: A Bastille Day Music Mix 2009

  • (Soundbite of music) HOFFMAN: That's from the "Hymne a la Victoire," or "Hymn to Victory" by Luigi Cherubini, a celebratory piece from 1796, during the French Revolution.

    Revolutionary Sounds: A Bastille Day Music Mix 2009

  • After that, she came out with all her hair cut, and she sang "Hymne a l'Amour" for the first time.

    The Last Day In The Life, A Benevolent Dictator 2008

  • In a reverse shot, she sings "Hymne a l'Amour" to an empty club, the seats filled only by ghosts.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Walter Jon Williams 2008

  • In a reverse shot, she sings "Hymne a l'Amour" to an empty club, the seats filled only by ghosts.

    Reviews Too Late: La Vie en Rose Walter Jon Williams 2008

  • In reward whereof, they taught him (by heart) many wholsome prayers, as the Pater noster in the vulgar tongue; the Song of Saint Alexis; the Lamentations of Saint Bernard, the Hymne of Madame Matilda, and many other such like matters, which he kept charily, and repeated usually, as tending to the salvation of his soule.

    The Decameron 2004

  • The success of the Triumphal Ode was so marked that the composer's fame reached foreign lands, and the city of Florence ordered from her the cantata, "Hymne à la Paix," in celebration of the Dante festival.

    Woman's Work in Music Arthur Elson

  • In July of the same year a detachment of volunteers was sent to Paris from Marseilles by order of Barbaroux, and as they were in the habit of singing this song both on their march and in the capital it received the name of the “Hymne des Marseillais.”

    The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

  • Perseus, Hercules, Theseus_ and many other, who thereby came to be accompted gods and halfe gods or goddesses [_Heroes_] & had their commedations giuen by Hymne accordingly or by such other poems as their memorie was therby made famous to the posteritie for euer after, as shal be more at large sayd in place conuenient.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

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