Vive la France! It's Bastille Day!

[wyntrout]

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Today is Bastille Day! Vive la France! http://kahrtalk.com/data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhKQAbALMIAAAAABAAACEICCkp50oxGP8 AAP/3If///wAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACH/C05FVFNDQVBFMi4wAwEAAAAh+QQJGgAIACwAAAAAKQAbAAAEwR DJSWsFNuu9gR9geIzkUZwo1xFAKJYjmqoZwLogHMsFXd84nYnn s9haQR2vV6QccQPhsukEuqREquSZhE21CO5VmdWKX94y9Zwjyy qBeHyFHKffkrhhv58bWWATAXyEfX8YgYOFhQEXgIl7AgJ8koZV AAJgigaVkZOWWyycWpuLhI0Skp+ZVKWmlpOdrE2ur42fR7O0ka afAZ8GR4EIisC8BqUCwpCeqnybmcvMptChiMN6p7+qEx7Xw8Ry qOAaEQAAIfkEBRoACAAsAAAAACkAGwAABLkQyUmrvThrC7b/EyAOZHmc6FGsLFgBBFCa6cm2bhjPZG3fhZxOxvOpgEIJjDgzAo PJJW/gREZ3Rd8ziZBma9srkwa2Cr1NrVkSaLczaHIqjGgb7vc3B5su3 9h4gXl7HVwBgogBLzFcdYgGAgKDFEuGeJGXkpNKMZFCh4+CikO Qn6GiE5GaAqaneIqYmKU5oJqCmgG2S6xJtbd5gpWWd6qyBqDEw sOPyJ7Khsh5uapDjRRuehcihUIRAAA7http://kahrtalk.com/data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhKQAbALMIAAAAABAAACEICCkp50oxGP8 AAP/3If///wAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACH/C05FVFNDQVBFMi4wAwEAAAAh+QQJGgAIACwAAAAAKQAbAAAEwR DJSWsFNuu9gR9geIzkUZwo1xFAKJYjmqoZwLogHMsFXd84nYnn s9haQR2vV6QccQPhsukEuqREquSZhE21CO5VmdWKX94y9Zwjyy qBeHyFHKffkrhhv58bWWATAXyEfX8YgYOFhQEXgIl7AgJ8koZV AAJgigaVkZOWWyycWpuLhI0Skp+ZVKWmlpOdrE2ur42fR7O0ka afAZ8GR4EIisC8BqUCwpCeqnybmcvMptChiMN6p7+qEx7Xw8Ry qOAaEQAAIfkEBRoACAAsAAAAACkAGwAABLkQyUmrvThrC7b/EyAOZHmc6FGsLFgBBFCa6cm2bhjPZG3fhZxOxvOpgEIJjDgzAo PJJW/gREZ3Rd8ziZBma9srkwa2Cr1NrVkSaLczaHIqjGgb7vc3B5su3 9h4gXl7HVwBgogBLzFcdYgGAgKDFEuGeJGXkpNKMZFCh4+CikO Qn6GiE5GaAqaneIqYmKU5oJqCmgG2S6xJtbd5gpWWd6qyBqDEw sOPyJ7Khsh5uapDjRRuehcihUIRAAA7http://www.emofaces.com/en/emoticons/f/france-flag-waving-emoticon-animated.gif

Link to my favorite singer belting out La Marseillaise. I tried to find a good video clip but EMI has blocked its playing in this country and most of the clips I found were poor and had lyrics in every language but French or English. Anyhow, Veuillez écouter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIxOl1EraXA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3IvX...layer_embedded (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3IvXo0W1YI&feature=player_embedded)

This version brings tears to my eyes... from Casa Blanca:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsg9...yer_detailpage (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsg9i6lvqU&feature=player_detailpage)

Added: This is my second favorite national anthem. None is better than ours, but La Marseillaise is the second best! Both songs are born in war and invoke great patriotic feelings.

Wynn:)




Last edited by wyntrout (http://www.kahrtalk.com/posthistory.php?p=174153); 07-14-2012 at 12:40 PM.

[gb6491]

Yes, Happy Bastille Day...and a salute to Lafayette.
I too, love that scene from Casablanca.
Thanks for the post Wynn:)

Amitiés,
Greg

[Armybrat]

My maternal Grand-mère was Acadian French from St. Genevieve, Missouri. Here's her 21st birthday photo taken in 1896:

http://i522.photobucket.com/albums/w349/ScoPro/EasterTable029.jpg

[knkali]

could their history "la fete nationale" repeat itself here given the civil problems we seem to be facing? :amflag:

where did I put those French Fries???

[knkali]

My maternal Grand-mère was Acadian French from St. Genevieve, Missouri. Here's her 21st birthday photo taken in 1896:

http://i522.photobucket.com/albums/w349/ScoPro/EasterTable029.jpg

she was a beauty

[wyntrout]

I got to visit France quite a bit while stationed near there '83-86. I even got to Paris a couple of times... the last in April '85 with my not-quite-at-the-time, but wife-to-be. :)

I'm sure glad that we got a travel in Europe because I wouldn't want to go back there now, especially unarmed with all of the Muslim "rape-fugee-immigrants". I don't know if the French people have it in them to wage another revolution.

[340pd]

Was standing among them in the Place de la Bastille in Paris on July 14, 1999. They do know how to party. Paris is a much different city now.

[Bills1873]

Ste. Genevieve is my hometown, AB. Place is full of French heritage. My maternal grandfather was half French, what a fun, cool grandpere he was!

[Bobshouse]

We were stationed in Angouleme, France back in the early 60's, lived downtown. Course I learned French, otherwise I'd be a friendless little 5 year old running around on the streets...can't remember a damn word of it today though...lol.

[Armybrat]

Ste. Genevieve is my hometown, AB. Place is full of French heritage. My maternal grandfather was half French, what a fun, cool grandpere he was!

Grandma was from the LaRose family. I know there are a lot of cousins in the St. Louis area.

[downtownv]

And another terrorist attack in Nice, France
60 dead in Truck Rampage, then the Muzzies jumped out ak's a Blazin'
Driver shot dead!
http://www.aol.com/article/2016/07/14/truck-plows-into-crowd-in-nice-france-many-dead-paper/21432395/

[nmkahrshooter]

Sad day for France- Again!

[Bills1873]

Grandma was from the LaRose family. I know there are a lot of cousins in the St. Louis area.
Many LaRose families in Ste Genevieve still. As a child, l lived on LaRose street. Small world!