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paleotn

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20. Viva la France!!!

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2026, 05:34 PM

Sunday

Thank you, mon Général, for truly speaking truth to power. Viva La Marseillaise!!!

And you though the Star Spangled Banner was militaristic. Rockets red glare and bombs bursting in air's got nothing on the La Marseillaise. Long ago, we learned the words to it in French class and were like whoa! Don't fuck with the French. Our ancestors thought a constitutional monarchy was tyrannical. Try an absolute monarchy. You've got to understand their history to fully get the words and what they mean to the French.

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