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Marseillaise

NOUN
  1. the French national anthem

How To Use Marseillaise In A Sentence

  • It is the usual "gros bourg" of Alsace, with comfortable old houses in espaliered gardens: dull, well-to-do, contented; not in the least the kind of setting demanded by the patriotism which has to be fed on pictures of little girls singing the Marseillaise in Alsatian head-dresses and old men with operatic waistcoats tottering forward to kiss the flag. Fighting France
  • The Marseillaise calls the people to revolution and freedom but does not specifically cite the glory of France.
  • The arrival of Tartarin, haggard, thin, covered in dust, with blazing eyes and bristling chechia cut short this enjoyable Turco-Marseillaise orgy. Tartarin De Tarascon
  • Will you sing us the Marseillaise?
  • The following year the ‘Marseillaise’ was adopted as the national anthem, and the 14 July as a national fête, to join the tricolor as the national flag.
  • So intent were they upon contributing to the comfort of the men who had been wounded in protecting their homes, as they regarded it, that they brought a piano into my ward, and the young ladies vied with each other in delectating us with the Marseillaise, Dixie, and like patriotic songs, interspersing occasionally something about moonlight walks in Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army Being a Narrative of Personal Adventures in the Infantry, Ordnance, Cavalry, Courier, and Hospital Services; With an Exhibition of the Power, Purposes, Earnestness, Military Despotism, and Demoralization of the South
  • `Yes, it's announcement, narrator one minute twelve, cross-fade Marseillaise thirty seconds, fade out...' HUMAN VOICES
  • They sang the Red Flag and the Marseillaise, followed by three cheers for the social revolution and three boos for royalty and blacklegs.
  • The woman began to sing the Marseillaise.
  • An officer called Rouget de Lisle wrote a song for the republican army The Marseillaise, which has become the national song of France.
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