Le Chant des Girondins

Le Chant des Girondins

English: The Song of Girondists
Former national anthem of France
Lyrics	Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet, Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle
Music	Alphonse Varney
Adopted	1848
Relinquished	1852
Preceded by	La Parisienne
Succeeded by	Partant pour la Syrie
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Le Chant des Girondins (English: The Song of the Girondists) was the national anthem of the French Second Republic, written for the drama Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge by the writer Alexandre Dumas with Auguste Maquet. The lines of the refrain were borrowed from "Roland à Roncevaux", a song written in Strasbourg by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, the author of La Marseillaise.^[1] The music is by conductor-composer Alphonse Varney.^[2]