14 July On this day in 1789, the Bastille, the state prison in Paris, was stormed by the citizens of Paris and burnt to the ground at the start of the French Revolution.
More from Marat/Sade!
We've got new generals, our leaders are new
They sit and they argue and all that they do
Is sell their own colleagues and ride upon their backs
Or jail them, or break them, or give them all the ax
Screaming in language that no one understands
Of the rights that we grabbed with our own bleeding hands
When we wiped out the bosses and stormed through the wall
Of the prison they told us would outlast us all
Also Quatorze Juillet (July 14), a song written in 1940 by the Swiss composer Gilles Jean-Villard for occupied France and sung in 1943 by the French artist Renée Lebas.
LINK to BASTILLE DAY posted above /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=170041&messages=126#bastilleday:~:text=Subject%3A%20RE%3A%20Any%20July%20Songs%0AFrom%3A%
14 JUILLET
"14 juillet" de Jean Villard-Gilles - Dominique Desmons : chant et piano. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln0XBk2UF-w
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