I'm not French and don't speak French, but I have seen Casablanca...
2006-07-09 12:16:12 · 16 answers · asked by wild_eep 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Ah! the Welsh. Tricky one now...
2006-07-09 12:23:56 · update #1
It is one of the best. No argument here. In the scene from Casablanca where the French were singing(in Rick's Cafe) La Marseillaise to drown out the Germans who were singing their anthem, those really were French expatriots who had fled France after the Nazis had taken over. It was one of the most emotional scenes in any movie. Those tears you saw were real. Vive la France!
2006-07-09 12:53:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
I'm French, and I haven't seen Casablanca.
Our national anthem is coming from the Revolution, so it is a war song.
Some of the sentences are violent, that's why a lot of French don't like it very much. Some people propose to rewrite some sentences, or to invert the order of the couplets.
A particular sentence is criticized "Qu'un samp impur abreuve nos sillons" (something like "Let an impure blood flow our fields"): some people think that it is a racist sentence against the strangers.
But most of the historicians tell us that "impure blood" does not designate the strangers, but designate the revolutionnary French themselves.
2006-07-10 04:04:00 · answer #2 · answered by Abeille_QR 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
so a procedures as i will inform, there aren't any similarities in any respect between them:- (a million) One is in French, the different is in English (2) The French nationwide anthem - l. a. Marseillaise - is in 4/4 time; superstar Spangled Banner is in 3/4 time (3) The song to superstar Spangled Banner became written by employing an Englishman, besides the actual incontrovertible truth that the words were written to commemorate an incident in a conflict with Britain. i will't see the French ever swallowing their nationwide music being written by employing a foreigner - a lot less an Englishman!! (4) superstar Spangled Banner celebrates the perception of peace; l. a. Marseillaise is largely an orgy of blood-letting! (5) l. a. Marseillaise became written 24 years in the previous than superstar Spangled Banner and became followed because the respectable nationwide anthem round one hundred fifty years in the previous than superstar Spangled Banner - in spite of the actual incontrovertible truth that l. a. Marseillaise became banned a number of circumstances by employing successive French governments for the time of its heritage.
2016-11-06 02:55:27 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No way, I think the Italian anthem has the best tune! It's upbeat and always gets the crowd going no matter where you hear it, whether it's played on a football field or after a Ferrari win at a grand prix.
2006-07-09 14:01:18 · answer #4 · answered by Burnsie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, super anthem even though it was written for the French Revolution. Ours should be Land of Hope & Glory
2006-07-09 12:34:19 · answer #5 · answered by bobken 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is catchy........but the words are kind of brutal...
To the guy above : the Canadian anthem came from a French guy !!! Lavallée !
2006-07-09 12:23:39 · answer #6 · answered by isafilsix 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure the French think so
2006-07-09 12:21:35 · answer #7 · answered by Taffi 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like the southafrican one at the end of cry freedom - its a good humming toon.
2006-07-09 12:35:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No because us Welsh do - Wales, the land of song....Welsh & english lyrics below.....
2006-07-09 12:21:39 · answer #9 · answered by jack 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To the French, yes.
Ask a mother whos child is her favorite...PROBABLY her own...
2006-07-09 12:28:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋