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Ye sons of France, awake to glory!
Hark! hark! what myriads bid you rise!
Your children, wives, and grandsires hoary,
Behold their tears and hear their cries!
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
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Come, children of our country, the day of glory has arrived…To arms, citizens! Form your battalions!
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Forward, sons of France,
The day of glory has come!
To arms, citizens!
Line up in battalions!
Let us march on! Let the impure blood of enemies drench our fields!
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To arms! to arms! ye brave!
The avenging sword unsheathe!
March on! march on! all hearts resolved
On victory or death!
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
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Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
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Born:
May 10, 1760
Died:
June 26, 1836
(aged 76)
Bio:
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, sometimes spelled de l'Isle or de Lile, was a French army officer of the French Revolutionary Wars.
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