Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 9, Number 45, DeMotte, Jasper County, 28 September 1939 — Powerful Song [ARTICLE]

Powerful Song

Few songs have ever affected their listeners as much as “Amour sacre de la pa trie’’ as it was sung during the. presentation of the opera “La Muette de Portici” at the Theater Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels on the night of August 25, 1830. Inspired by it, the audience stopped the performance, broke the chairs, rushed into the street and started the famous revolution through which Belgium won its administrative freedom from Holland.—Collier’s.