Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-01-31

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On tie annivrsnEy Of ~ Aassailaisa.
wherever uhsrs Is FrsnehmAn. he Win
surely azEmble With NJ felious u
giorify his national hymA- EnPares and
republics alike have ben slowed By iss
stirring music. and more than once it
has turned tbs tide Of batsle BY inspirng
with fresh enthusiasm almost hopelas
battaiionA Ii has barn Sung in palace.
howell and around the scAIold, and
peasants have marched 10 victory ami
mated by its noble music.
Claude Joseph Rouget de i'Isle, the
author. was . young captain Of French
xxlx xayts 40.
died in 1885. He wrote commonplace
verses and wss fairly good musician.
playing upon the violin, but il was this
single composition, the ..Marseillaise, =
that made his name famous. France at
that time was in state Of connection,
her vitality being threatened by the al
lied kings Of Europe. her people had
been called to arms and nobly responded
Young De isle was CHARTERED at Stras-
burg. During dinner party ut the
house Of the mayor some one spoke Of
the heroic songs that stimulate the ardor
of the soldier, and the mayor turning 10
De rIsle asked him to compose new
march for his comrades. In the romance
of history we learn that on retiring TO
his room, ''the night being superb. he
took down his violin and played and
sang. Air and words both came ut the
same time; the subject transported him.
Ii was as if the soul OF La Patrie was
passing into his own, as If through his
mouth liberty was uttsrine her enthu-
siasm and her generous anger. In the
morning six verses were completed, and,
vibrating with patriotic excitement, he
read the War Song Of the Army Of the
Rhine'-its first title--to his friends.
Manuscripts were distributed through
out Alsace, and the music was executed
on the public square at Strasburg."
Thence it Travelled over France, and
contributed to the victory Of the French
revolutionary armies. In Paris it was
sung for the first time by the band Of
men who were brought from Marseilles
by Barbaroux to aid in the revolution Of
Aug. 10, 1892, and were prominent in
storIning the Tuileries. There it re-
ceived the christening Of LA Marseil-
laise." Generals said it was worth ten
thousand men.
De rIsle never intended the hymn to
be republican anthem, for he was a
Royalist, but it was adopted by the First
Republic, retained by Napoleon, and
sang as TIE Deum on the occasion Of
brilliant victories. The Imperial guard
always marched to the air Of LA Mar
seillaise" It was forbidden under the
Restoration, but came again into use
during the reign of Louis Philippe, and
is now firmly intrenched in the hearts
Of the French people.
FELIX G.. DE FoHrArSk