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- noun The French national anthem, la Marseillaise, with at least seven verses plus the chorus.
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Rouget de Lisle composed 'La Marseillaise' as a call to arms.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Tzoran 2010
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Rouget de Lisle composed 'La Marseillaise' as a call to arms.
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Rouget de Lisle composed 'La Marseillaise' as a call to arms.
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Rouget de Lisle composed 'La Marseillaise' as a call to arms.
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People poured out into the streets in an incredibly loud, joyous victory dance, drinking champagne, hugging each other, cheering loudly amid the honking horns, the chanting and the singing of La Marseillaise.
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COLE: In 1940, with the La Marseillaise banned by the Germans, Django wrote a new anthem that struck a chord in France.
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Ridiculously, Gallas sang along to La Marseillaise with gusto.
France and Raymond Domenech exit World Cup by betraying their heritage 2010
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Last week, at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of November, France's heart-stirring ` La Marseillaise, 'originally called the ` War Song of the Army of the Rhine,' was played as usual beneath the nation's most hallowed site, the Etoile, or Arc de Triumph, beneath which burns the Eternal Flame that commemorates France's war dead.
Eric Margolis: The Dead Remind Europe Of The Folly Of War 2009
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She also wrote several accounts of her travels, as well as a number of novels, including Délivrance (1936); La Marseillaise, 2 vols.
Louise Weiss. 2009
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You'll hear excerpts of La Marseillaise and le Chant de Partisans second video, and witness the touching and humble reconnaissance of France's youth.
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