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The
Marquis de Lafayette, commander of the new National Guard,
combined the colors of the King (white) and the colors
of Paris (blue and red) for his guardsmen's uniforms and from
this came the Tricolor, the new French flag. |
"Come
children of the Motherland, the day of glory has arrived! Against
us, the tyrant has raised his bloody banner, has raised his
bloody banner! Don't you hear across our countryside the roar
of his merciless soldiers? They are coming right into your arms
to butcher your friends and family! Citizens, to arms! Let's
march! March! So that our very fields shall wash with their
evil blood!" The
Marseillaise
first a French marching song, and later
the National Anthem |
The
French Revolution took on the character of a religious crusade.
It was not enough to have a revolution at home. The gospel
of revolution must be spread to the rest of Europe. France
declared war on Prussia and Austria as the French "nation"
against foreign kings, and proclaimed it advanced the cause
of liberty.
Part
of Liberté,
Egalité, Fraternité: The French
Revolution
exhibit
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