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								"Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre, Mironton, mironton, mirontaine, Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre, Ne sait quand reviendra." 
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								"Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre, Mironton, mironton, mirontaine, Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre, Ne sait quand reviendra." 
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								"Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre, Mironton, mironton, mirontaine, Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre, Ne sait quand reviendra." 
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								France, -- _Malbrouck s'en va-t-en guerre_, _En roulant ma Boule roulant_, _A la Claire Fontaine_, and others -- and these airs simple, pleasing, a little sad, have become characteristic of French Canada. A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 George M. Wrong 
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								The Emperor also whistled sometimes, but very rarely; and the air, 'Malbrook s'en va-t-en guerre', whistled by his Majesty was an unerring announcement to me of his approaching departure for the army. Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various 
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								You might sing Malborough sen va-t-en guerre,  for thats quite a childs song and is sung as a lullaby in all the aristocratic houses. Chapter V. Part V 1917 
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								Rivers still goes off to the woods chanting the Malbrouck s'en va-t-en guerre which his ancestors sang in the days of Blenheim and Oudenarde. The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism William Bennett Munro 1916 
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								Colleone's statue at Venice is superior in many ways: yet the radical distinction between them is that whereas Gattamelata is the faithful portrait of a modest though successful warrior, it must be confessed that Verrocchio makes an idealised soldier of fortune, full of bravado and swagger, a _Malbrook s'en va-t-en guerre_ of the Donatello, by Lord Balcarres David Lindsay Crawford 1905 
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								Christophe was unnerved by the noise in the hall, and stopped suddenly half-way through a movement: and he looked jeeringly at the audience, who were startled into silence, and played _Malbrouck s'en va-t-en guerre_! Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House Romain Rolland 1905 
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								The fiddlers played "Malbrook s'en va-t-en guerre." The Long Roll Mary Johnston 1903 
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