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]