Abstract
From 1940 and until 1944, La Marseillaise is diverted, instrumented by the Resistance fighters to challenge Germans and collaborators, by music and images.The Free Thought movement viewed itself as the spearhead of the Republic and the body asked to uphold secularism, supreme republican value. Free thinkers used La Marseillaise to express their support of the Revolution and the Republic, but also to dispute the role and the place of religion in the State and the society.The attachment of the activist free thinkers with this anthem, that it is the music and the words or only the music (anticlerical versions abound), highlights the strength of the link existing between the Free Thought, the Great Revolution and the Republic. However, in the course of the decades, this link tended more and more to express itself through another revolutionary song, The Carmagnole, that never became an anthem, whereas was born the bigger desire of a world scale Revolution, that what translated by the recourse to the Internationale.
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