Partisan's chant
The Chant des Partisans ( Song of the Partisans ) was the most popular song of the French Forces françaises libres and the Resistance during World War II .
Emergence
The song was composed in London in 1943. Anna Marly , who was a Russian exile, was referring to a Russian melody that she had already met in 1941. Joseph Kessel and Maurice Druon wrote the text. Anna Marly performed the song on the French-language programs of the BBC . The text calls for a struggle for life and death for the liberation of France. The song was very popular, especially after the end of the German occupation, and was sometimes discussed as a replacement for La Marseillaise . The manuscript is a national cultural monument and is kept in the Musée national de la Légion d'Honneur . The performers included Jean Ferrat , Yves Montand , Catherine Ribeiro , Johnny Hallyday and Catherine Sauvage , Mireille Mathieu , Philippe Léotard and Giovanni Mirabassi .
In Korea , the song was intoned as a march by the Korean Liberation Army, the troops of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, among others .
Anna Marly also wrote a more lyrical and solemn song of similar content, La Complainte du Partisan (Lament of the Partisan), which was covered in English by Leonard Cohen , among others .
literature
- Richard Raskin: Le Chant des Partisans: Functions of a Wartime Song. In: Folklore [UK], 102, 1 (Summer, 1991), pp. 62-76.
Web links
supporting documents
- ^ «Anna Marly (1917-2006)» (History of the Chant des partisans) , on the website cheminsdememoire.gouv.fr
- ↑ Entry on the protection of the manuscript