Adopted 1848 | Relinquished 1852 | |
Lyrics Alexandre Dumas,
Auguste Maquet Music Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle | ||
Le Chant des Girondins (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.
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