:frog: :swiss: :uffda:
Yes, it's a happy day.
EARLY RELEASE FOR EVERYBODY ALL SEVEN OF YOU
Liberte, egalite, fraternite, regicide.
Liberté, Egalité Dirigisté, Fraternité Chauvinisté
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K1q9Ntcr5g
:tear:
Quote from: Grey Fox on July 14, 2012, 08:50:09 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K1q9Ntcr5g
:tear:
http://youtu.be/HM-E2H1ChJM
:cry:
I'll play Levée En Masse on my ipad today. :)
Quote from: Grey Fox on July 14, 2012, 08:50:09 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K1q9Ntcr5g
:tear:
I have to give it to the French. They have the best National Anthem.
Guillotines, Gaols and Gulags for everyone! :cheers:
Quote from: Scipio on July 14, 2012, 08:21:38 AM
Liberte, egalite, fraternite, regicide.
Regicide is the most noble of all "cides".
Quote from: Grey Fox on July 14, 2012, 08:50:09 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K1q9Ntcr5g
:tear:
:cheers:
The only Viking approved Marseillaise performance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM-E2H1ChJM
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La victoire en chantant
Nous ouvre la barrière
La Liberté guide nos pas
Et du Nord au Midi
La trompette guerrière
A sonné l'heure des combats.
Tremblez ennemis de la France
Rois ivres de sang et d'orgueil.
Le Peuple souverain s'avance,
Tyrans descendez au cercueil.
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Come on everybody sing!
La République nous appelle!
Sachons vaincre ou sachons périr!
Un Français doit vivre pour elle
Pour elle un Français doit mourir!
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Sur le fer devant Dieu, nous jurons à nos pères,
À nos épouses, à nos sœurs,
À nos représentants, à nos fils, à nos mères,
D'anéantir les oppresseurs :
En tous lieux, dans la nuit profonde,
Plongeant l'infâme royauté,
Les Français donneront au monde
Et la paix et la liberté!
Happy Bastille Day! Mort Aux Rois!
Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 14, 2012, 04:47:01 AM
Yes, it's a happy day.
EARLY RELEASE FOR EVERYBODY ALL SEVEN OF YOU
Darnit it was symbolic.
Quote from: Scipio on July 14, 2012, 08:21:38 AM
Liberté, Égalite, Fraternité, régicide.
Fixed it for you :)
Quote from: Viking on July 14, 2012, 08:37:41 AM
Liberté, Égalité Dirigisme, Fraternité Chauvinisme
Fixed it for you :)
Une joyeuse Fête de la Fédération ! :)
The cavalry in the parade. :wub:
I got a Murat boner.
I thought it was cool in The Day of the Jackal when the mounted band was playing Aupres de Ma Blonde.
Is that traditionally played Duque?
Quote from: Admiral Yi on July 14, 2012, 05:58:41 PM
I thought it was cool in The Day of the Jackal when the mounted band was playing Aupres de Ma Blonde.
Is that traditionally played Duque?
On July 14th? It's a drinking and even nursery rhyme but originally a military march so it does not seem out of bounds except for the references to Holland(e) in the nowadays seldom sung stanzas ;)
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on July 14, 2012, 06:16:17 PM
On July 14th? It's a drinking and even nursery rhyme but originally a military march so it does not seem out of bounds except for the references to Holland(e) in the nowadays seldom sung stanzas ;)
If you leave out the Holland part you can't deliver the dynamite twist at the end. :(
Link to some awesome photos of the parade today:
http://darkroom.baltimoresun.com/2012/07/bastille-days-traditional-military-parade/#1
http://darkroom.baltimoresun.com/2012/07/bastille-days-traditional-military-parade/soldiers-from-french-foreign-legion-take-2/
In this picture, of the french foreign legion, you can see it's only Mongolian-born member.
Apparently finding a teacher for him wasn't Easy.
Quote from: FunkMonk on July 14, 2012, 09:21:25 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on July 14, 2012, 08:50:09 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K1q9Ntcr5g
:tear:
http://youtu.be/HM-E2H1ChJM
:cry:
:wub:
Vive la France! :frog:
You know, I am a tremendous fan of French military history and tradition, but damn, I've always hated the look of those massive erect kepis. Especially from the country that invented the beret.
Christ, they even looked better collapsed and slouched in the ACW.
Bring back the tricorn for non-coms. :mad:
Really? I love a good kepi, me, and the recent Eurosatory did a lot to fuel my French Foreign Legion fantasies.
The Russian Generals with their needlessly massive crowns won at hats, though :lol:
Quote from: Brazen on July 15, 2012, 08:32:18 AM
The Russian Generals with their needlessly massive crowns won at hats, though :lol:
The ones that look like the 1964 New York Worlds Fair landed on their heads and embroidered themselves? Yeah, those are pretty bad.
I snuck a photo. Cold War-tastic!
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Quote from: Brazen on July 15, 2012, 08:58:02 AM
I snuck a photo. Cold War-tastic!
Did you ever ask any of them what the deal was with the obligatory Russian facial wart? Is it government issued?
Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 15, 2012, 08:59:18 AM
Did you ever ask any of them what the deal was with the obligatory Russian facial wart? Is it government issued?
No, the Russian for "wart" escaped me. However the guy facing front looks like he's going for someone's brains imminently.