# Le Chant des Girondins > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Le_Chant_des_Girondins > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Le_Chant_des_Girondins.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Chant_des_Girondins > Source revision: 1292484050 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Anthem of the Second French Republic (1848–1852) Le Chant des Girondins English: 'The Chant of the Girondins' 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" Audio sample file help "**Le Chant des Girondins**" ('The Chant of the [Girondins](/source/Girondins)') was the [national anthem](/source/National_anthem) of the [French Second Republic](/source/French_Second_Republic), written for the drama *[Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge](/source/Le_Chevalier_de_Maison-Rouge)* by the writer [Alexandre Dumas](/source/Alexandre_Dumas) with [Auguste Maquet](/source/Auguste_Maquet). The lines of the refrain were borrowed from "Roland à Roncevaux", a song written in Strasbourg by [Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle](/source/Claude-Joseph_Rouget_de_Lisle), the author of "[La Marseillaise](/source/La_Marseillaise)".[1] The music is by conductor-composer [Alphonse Varney](/source/Alphonse_Varney).[2] ## Lyrics French original English translation I Par la voix du canon d’alarmes La France appelle ses enfants, – Allons dit le soldat, aux armes ! C’est ma mère, je la défends. Refrain : Mourir pour la Patrie Mourir pour la Patrie C’est le sort le plus beau, le plus digne d’envie C’est le sort le plus beau, le plus digne d’envie II Nous, amis, qui loin des batailles Succombons dans l’obscurité, Vouons du moins nos funérailles A la France, à la liberté. Refrain III Frères, pour une cause sainte, Quand chacun de nous est martyr, Ne proférons pas une plainte, La France, un jour doit nous bénir. Refrain IV Du Créateur de la nature, Bénissons encore la bonté, Nous plaindre serait une injure, Nous mourons pour la liberté. Refrain I By the voice of the alarm gun France calleth her children, – "Come," said the soldier, to arms! It's my mother, her do I defend. Refrain: Dying for the Homeland Dying for the Homeland It's the most beautiful, most desirable fate It's the most beautiful, most desirable fate II We friends who far from battles Succumbing in the darkness, Let us at least take our funeral To France, to freedom. Refrain III Brothers, for a holy cause, When each of us is martyred, Make not a complaint, France, one day ought to bless us. Refrain IV From the Creator of Nature, Let us bless the goodness still, Complaining would an insult be, For freedom we die. Refrain ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["France (1848-1852) – nationalanthems.info"](http://www.nationalanthems.info/fr-52.htm). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["IMSLP: Chant des Girondins"](https://imslp.org/wiki/Chant_des_Girondins_(Varney,_Alphonse)). ## External sources - [Music Sheet (Page 1)](http://www.nationalanthems.info/fr-52~1.jpg) (in French) - [Music Sheet (Page 2)](http://www.nationalanthems.info/fr-52~2.jpg) (in French) v t e Former anthems of Europe Austria (then Austria-Hungary, 1797–1918) Austria (1920–29) Austria (1929–38) Baden (1865–71) Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992–98) Bulgaria (1885–1947) Bulgaria (1947–51) Bulgaria (1951–64) Czechoslovakia (1918–92) Danzig (1920–39) France (1590–1792) France (1804–14, 1815) France (1814–15, 1815–30) France (1830–48) France (1848–52) France (1852–70) Germany (1871–1918) Germany (1933–45) East Germany (1949–90) West Germany (1949–52) Italy (1861–1946) Italy (1943–1945) Montenegro (1870—1918) Netherlands (1815–1932) Norway (1782–1820) Norway (1820–64) Ottoman Empire (1829–1923) Papal States (then Vatican City, 1857–1949) Portugal (1809–1834) Portugal (1834–1910) Prussia (1830–40) Romania (1862–1884) Romania (1884–1948) Romania (1948–53) Romania (1953–75) Romania (1975–77) Romania (1977–90) San Marino (to 1894) Sardinia (1830s–61) Slovakia (1939–45) Slovenia (1919–89) Spain (1931–39) Switzerland (1848–1961) Two Sicilies (1815–61) Württemberg (1806–71) Yugoslavia (1919–41) Yugoslavia (then Serbia and Montenegro, 1945–2006) Former Russian Empire, the Soviet Union or their successor states Russian Empire (1791–98) Russian Empire (1798–1816) Russian Empire (1816–33) Russian Empire (1833–1917) Russian Republic (1917) Russian State (1918–20) Russian SFSR (then the Soviet Union, 1917–44) Soviet Union (1944–91) Russia (1991–2000) Armenian SSR (1944–91) Azerbaijan SSR (then Azerbaijan, 1944–92) Belarus (1918–20) Byelorussian SSR (1952–91) Checheno-Ingush ASSR (then Ingushetia, 1966–92) Chechnya (then the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, 1991–2000) Crimean People's Republic (1917–18) Dagestan (Russia) (2003–2016) Estonian SSR (1945–90) Georgian SSR (1946–90) Georgia (1918–21, 1990–2004) Karelo-Finnish SSR (1945–56) Kazakh SSR (1945–91) Kazakhstan (1991–2006) Latvian SSR (1945–90) Lithuanian SSR (1950–88) Moldavian SSR (1945–91) Ukrainian SSR (then Ukraine, 1949–92) This French history–related article is a stub. 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