by jc » Sun Jul 02, 2006 3:46 pm
Yeh, see? Bogart, Cantona, and taking it to the streets. And I've always been more <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>communard</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> than communist. And Zidane and the French squad are headed for another WC title. Allez les beurs!<br><br>There's this:<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>"La Marseillaise" is a song written and composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle at Strasbourg on April 25, 1792. Its original name is "Chant de guerre de l'Armée du Rhin" ("Marching Song of the Rhine Army"<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START ;) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/wink.gif ALT=";)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> and it was dedicated to Marshall Nicolas Luckner, a Bavarian-born French officer from Cham. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>It became the rallying call of the French Revolution and got its name because it was first sung on the streets by troops (fédérés) from Marseille upon their arrival in Paris.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>Now the national anthem of France, it was also once <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>the anthem of the international revolutionary movement.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> Indeed, the words of "The Internationale", written in 1870 by Eugène Pottier were originally set to the tune of "La Marseillaise". During the Paris Commune (1871), that was adopted as an anthem; it was only in 1888 that Pierre Degeyter re-set "The Internationale" to the tune known today.<br><br>Because great numbers of people on the left around the world, <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>particularly anarchists</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->, took inspiration from the Commune, the song became an international symbol of leftism. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>For instance, in Chicago, Illinois, the Haymarket Martyrs went to their deaths singing the "Marseillaise"</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->. In 1917, after the collapse of the tsarist regime "La Marseillaise" and "The Internationale" were both used as de facto anthems of Russia.[1][2] Within a few years "The Internationale" gradually prevailed and became the only anthem. The Russian lyrics of "Marseillaise", "Otrechemsya ot starogo mira", are very different from the French lyrics; both French and Russian lyrics were sung in Russia.<br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>The song was banned in Vichy France and German-occupied areas during World War II and singing it was an act of resistance (see also Chant des Partisans). </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->It was also banned under the French Empire: the France of Napoléon and Napoléon III either used different anthems or no anthem at all for the period of 1799 to 1870.<br><br>"La Marseillaise" was re-arranged by Hector Berlioz around 1830.<br>In 1882, Pyotr Tchaikovsky used extensive quotes from the Marseillaise to represent the invading French army in his 1812 Overture. This was an anachronism, as the Marseillaise was the French anthem in Tchaikovsky's day, but not Napoleon's.<br><br>In France itself, the anthem (and particularly the lyrics) has become a somewhat controversial issue since the 1970s. Some consider it militaristic and xenophobic, and many propositions have been made to change the anthem or the lyrics. However, "La Marseillaise" has been associated throughout history with the French Republic and its values, making a change unlikely.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Recently, and despite the lyrics, it was largely sung by anti-racist protesters after Jean-Marie Le Pen advanced to the second round of the 2002 presidential election.<br></strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Marseillaise">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Marseillaise</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>and from WML's link above:<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>an early idealistic period, when - as both Renault and Victor Laszlo point out - <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Rick ran guns to the Ethiopians and fought on the loyalist side in the Spanish civil war, earning himself a place of honor on the Nazis' blacklist</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->;<br><br>a central period, filling most of the present of the film, characterized largely by a cynical and selfish neutrality, as expressed by the line spoken twice by Rick - "I stick my neck out for nobody"; yet even here, there are flashes of profound integrity, as when Rick tells Ferrari (Sidney Greenstreet) that he doesn't buy or sell human beings; presumably, Rick's fall into cynicism was triggered by what he experienced as a betrayal at the Paris railroad station when he received Ilsa's farewell note;<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>a final period, in which Rick overcomes his selfish and self-pitying stance and returns to the fight against oppression.<br></strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Allons!<br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=jc@rigorousintuition>jc</A> at: 7/2/06 1:52 pm<br></i>