- 08 -122016
Rouget de Lisle & La Marseillaise : episode 7
The July Revolution La Marseillaise was sung during the July Revolution. A portrait realised by French sculptor David d’Anger the preceding year also helped to remember its author. Following his election as lieutenant general of […]
- 08 -082016
Rouget de Lisle & La Marseillaise : episode 6
The « Illustrated » Marseillaise In 1825, Ary Scheffer (1795-1858) painted a picture known as “La Marseilleise”–as spelled on the engraving–well before the two famous and largely reproduced artistic representations on this theme were realised […]
- 08 -042016
Rouget de Lisle & La Marseillaise : episode 5
War Song French composer André Gréty (1741-1813) wrote to his friend Rouget de Lisle : “Your Marseillaise sounds like explosive cannon shots”. The War Song for the Army on […]
- 07 -292016
Rouget de Lisle & La Marseillaise : episode 4
The Volunteers of 1792 On 8 June 1792, as France was waging war against Austria, Prussia and Hungary, the French Legislative Assembly ordained and enacted that a camp of 20 000 National Guards be created on […]
- 07 -252016
Rouget de Lisle & La Marseillaise : episode 3
Declaration of War The extreme hostility from the monarchies of Central Europe against revolutionary France led to the declaration of war on 20 April 1792. This declaration was preceded […]
- 07 -222016
Rouget de Lisle & La Marseillaise : episode 2
Military music Either sung or performed, military music has always been present in the armed forces. Destined to encourage the soldiers, music was an integral part of soldiers’ daily routine such as discipline and recreation […]
- 07 -192016
Rouget de Lisle & La Marseillaise : episode 1
In the classroom Claude-Joseph Rouget was born in Lons-le-Saunier (Jura) on 10 May 1760. In order to enter the Military School in Paris, his family was forced to add the nobiliary particle “de Lisle” to […]
- 07 -142016
Rouget de Lisle & La Marseillaise : episode pilot
The documentary exhibition Rouget de Lisle & La Marseillaise in the galleries of the Cour d’Honneur of the Hôtel des Invalides from 25 July 2016 to 7 October 2016 was organised by the musée de […]
- 06 -142016
The Nuit aux Invalides is back !
From June 14 to August 27, 2016, the musée de l’Armée and the Hôtel national des Invalides will be hosting the Nuit aux Invalides, 2016 Edition, a spectacular show presented by Amaclio. From the banks […]
- 05 -272016
The “hyperbataille” of Verdun, twenty-eighth episode : Verdun and franco-german reconciliation
The picture of French President François Mitterrand and Federal German Chancellor Helmut Kohl standing hand-in-hand in front of the Ossuary of Douaumont on September 1984 became a strong symbol of the Franco-German Reconciliation. Chancellor Helmut […]
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