Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 236, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1913 — The “Marseillaise." [ARTICLE]

The “Marseillaise."

It depends upon what you mean by er of firing the heart and rousing the will, then there is no other “national song" that comes within a thousand miles of the “Marseillaise.’' “The sound of it,” remarks Carlyle, "will maiiA the blood tingle in men’s veins, and whole armies and assemblages will sing it with eyes weeping and burning, and hearts defiant of death and despots.'* It ie the greatest soulawakener over known on this earth. The famous anthem was composed In 1798, by Rouget de Lisle. The scene Of Its birth was not, as some suppose, Marseilles, but Straßburg. It took its name from the fact that a force of Marseillaise first marched to its inspiring strains.