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  1. 07-14-2016, 08:46 AM #1
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    Default Vive la France! It's Bastille Day!



    An old post:

    Today is Bastille Day! Vive la France!

    Link to my favorite singer belting out La Marseillaise. I tried to find a good video clip but EMI has blocked its playing in this country and most of the clips I found were poor and had lyrics in every language but French or English. Anyhow, Veuillez écouter:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIxOl1EraXA

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3IvX...layer_embedded

    This version brings tears to my eyes... from Casa Blanca:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsg9...yer_detailpage

    Added: This is my second favorite national anthem. None is better than ours, but La Marseillaise is the second best! Both songs are born in war and invoke great patriotic feelings.

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    Yes, Happy Bastille Day...and a salute to Lafayette.
    I too, love that scene from Casablanca.
    Thanks for the post Wynn

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    My maternal Grand-mère was Acadian French from St. Genevieve, Missouri. Here's her 21st birthday photo taken in 1896:

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    could their history "la fete nationale" repeat itself here given the civil problems we seem to be facing?

    where did I put those French Fries???
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    Quote Originally Posted by Armybrat View Post
    My maternal Grand-mère was Acadian French from St. Genevieve, Missouri. Here's her 21st birthday photo taken in 1896:

    she was a beauty
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    I got to visit France quite a bit while stationed near there '83-86. I even got to Paris a couple of times... the last in April '85 with my not-quite-at-the-time, but wife-to-be.

    I'm sure glad that we got a travel in Europe because I wouldn't want to go back there now, especially unarmed with all of the Muslim "rape-fugee-immigrants". I don't know if the French people have it in them to wage another revolution.
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    Was standing among them in the Place de la Bastille in Paris on July 14, 1999. They do know how to party. Paris is a much different city now.
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    Ste. Genevieve is my hometown, AB. Place is full of French heritage. My maternal grandfather was half French, what a fun, cool grandpere he was!
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    We were stationed in Angouleme, France back in the early 60's, lived downtown. Course I learned French, otherwise I'd be a friendless little 5 year old running around on the streets...can't remember a damn word of it today though...lol.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bills1873 View Post
    Ste. Genevieve is my hometown, AB. Place is full of French heritage. My maternal grandfather was half French, what a fun, cool grandpere he was!
    Grandma was from the LaRose family. I know there are a lot of cousins in the St. Louis area.
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