Le Chant des Girondins
| English: 'The Chant of the Girondins' | |
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Music cover to "Chant of the Girondins", featuring Lamartine | |
Former national anthem of France | |
| Lyrics | Alexandre Dumas Auguste Maquet Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle |
| Music | Alphonse Varney |
| Adopted | 1848 |
| Relinquished | 1852 |
| Preceded by | "La Parisienne" |
| Succeeded by | "Partant pour la Syrie" |
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"Le Chant des Girondins" ('The Chant of the Girondins') 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". The music is by conductor-composer Alphonse Varney.