Le Chant des Girondins explained

Le Chant des Girondins
English Title:The Song of Girondists
Prefix:Former national
Country: France
Author:Alexandre Dumas,
Auguste Maquet,
Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle
Composer:Alphonse Varney
Adopted:1848
Until:1852
Predecessor:La Parisienne
Successor:Partant pour la Syrie
Sound:Le Chant des Girondins (The Song of the Girondists) recording.ogg

French: Le Chant des Girondins|italic=no (English: The Song of the Girondists) was the national anthem of the French Second Republic, written for the drama Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge by the writer Alexandre Dumas with Auguste Maquet. The lines of the refrain were borrowed from "Roland à Roncevaux", a song written in Strasbourg by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, the author of La Marseillaise.[1] The music is by conductor-composer Alphonse Varney.[2]

References

  1. Web site: France (1848-1852) – nationalanthems.info.
  2. Web site: IMSLP: Chant des Girondins.

External sources