La Marseillaise , une révolution de la gloire

Abstract

When La Marseillaise appears, military glory has become accessible to the other ranks of the former royal army and even to the new citizens-soldiers of the republican one. As shows La Marseillaise’s animated and ceaselessly rewritten history, the political discourse, which puts the war in words and in music, must be taken as a practice that cannot be reduced to a fixed essence. In this acceptation, La Marseillaise translated and stimulated certain evolutions of the French society in its relationship with war and military fact. The revolution of glory operated a convergence of warriors and citizen’s virtues, which established a new political and military situation whose appropriations and uses were everything but unambiguous.