- 132
(La Marseillaise)
Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
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Description
- printed handbill
Marche des Marseillois. [no place, ca. 1795]
Handbill (8 3/8 x 7 in.; 213 x 179 mm) on laid paper. Six stanzas in two columns, stanzas separated by swelled rules; lightly soliled and spotted. Gray cloth portfolio, red morocco label on front cover.
Handbill (8 3/8 x 7 in.; 213 x 179 mm) on laid paper. Six stanzas in two columns, stanzas separated by swelled rules; lightly soliled and spotted. Gray cloth portfolio, red morocco label on front cover.
Catalogue Note
A scarce and early printing of the French national anthem, composed in 1792 by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, a captain of engineers in the French army, and adopted by the French National Convention as the Republic's anthem in 1795. After passing in and out of favor—including periods when it was banned—"La Marseillaise" became the unofficial anthem of the international revolutionary movement, and in 1879 it again became France's national anthem.