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| | Some people suspected the government was behind the Christmas market shooting in sn effort to scare people to stay home and svoid crowds.<ref>http://m.en.rfi.fr/20181212-conspiracy-theories-among-yellow-vests-after-strasbourg-shooting</ref> | | Some people suspected the government was behind the Christmas market shooting in sn effort to scare people to stay home and svoid crowds.<ref>http://m.en.rfi.fr/20181212-conspiracy-theories-among-yellow-vests-after-strasbourg-shooting</ref> |
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| − | ===Ecrasez l'infame===
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| − | In the days following Macron's speech to the nation, cries for his resignation only grew louder. Crowds again took to the street, singing the French national anthem: {{Quotebox|Arise, children of the Fatherland, The day of glory has arrived!
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| − | Against us [[tyranny]]
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| − | raises its bloody banner
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| − | Do you hear, in the countryside,
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| − | The roar of those ferocious soldiers?
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| − | They're coming right into your arms
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| − | To cut the throats of your sons and women!
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| − | What does this horde of slaves,
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| − | of traitors and conjured kings want?
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| − | For whom are these vile chains,
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| − | these long-prepared will go?
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| − | Frenchmen, for us, ah! What outrage!
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| − | What fury must it arouse!
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| − | It is they they dare plan
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| − | to return to the old [[slavery]]!
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| − | What! Foreign cohorts
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| − | would make the law in our homes!
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| − | What! These mercenary phalanxes
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| − | would strike down our proud warriors!
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| − | Great God! By chained hands
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| − | our brows would yield under the yoke
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| − | Vile despot would have had
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| − | the masters of our destinies!
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| − | Frenchmen, as magnanimous warriors,
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| − | Bear or hold back your blows!
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| − | You spare those sorry victims,
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| − | Who arm against us with regret.
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| − | But not these bloodthirsty [[despot]]s,
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| − | These achievements of Bouillé,
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| − | All these tigers who, mercilessly,
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| − | rip their mother's breast!
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| − | Sacred love of the Fatherland,
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| − | Lead, support our avenging arms
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| − | Liberty, cherished [[Liberty]],
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| − | Fight with your defenders!
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| − | Under our [[flag]]s
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| − | Hurry to thy manly accents,
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| − | That your expiring enemies,
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| − | See your triumph and our glory!
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| − | Children, let Honor and Fatherland
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| − | be the object of all our wishes!
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| − | Let us always have souls nourished
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| − | with fires that might inspire both
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| − | Let us be united! Anything is possible;
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| − | Our vile enemies will fall,
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| − | Then the French will cease
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| − | to sing this fierce chorus:
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| − | To arms, citizens,
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| − | Form your battalions,
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| − | Let's march, let's march!
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| − | Let the impure blood water our furrows!}} The governments mistreatment of citizens, students, teens and school children will take generations to heal.
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| | ===Let them eat cake=== | | ===Let them eat cake=== |