The opening verse of La Marseillaise, the French national anthem, in English versification (Allons enfants de la Patrie, literally Come, children of the Fatherland.)
Written in 1792 by an army engineer Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (ironically a royalist who's head almost got chopped off during the revolution.) Become the official anthem of France in 1795. Was banned a few times by various Napoleons in the XIX century and finally reinstated as the national anthem in 1830.
Today is the 220th aniversary of the storming of the Bastille prison on July 14, 1789.
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