When he heard that Napoleon's remains were coming back to France, Marshall Moncey, one of the last Empire marshalls still alive, and dying from old age and weakness, begged his doctor to stuff him woth enough drugs to honour his Emperor one last time. When the coffin passed, he was here, in his regalia, saluting the man he had served and still revered. When it was lowered at the Invalides, he was one of the few who got to dip a bay tree branch in Holy Water and spray it over the coffin. When all was said and done, the only thing he said was: "Now the last thing I have to do is go home and die". True to his word, he passed quickly afterwards. And that was only one of many. All over Paris, hundreds of men had donned their old uniform to salute THE Emperor, the one they would still follow if he rose again.
It reminds me of the story of San Martín and why his tomb is guarded by 7 grenadiers. When he died and his remains were taken to Buenos Aires, all the Grenadiers on Horseback who were still alive put on their uniform and spontaneously went to look for him and stand guard with him all night. In total there were only 7. Incredible the loyalty that men had for their generals at that time
@@luansilvail well better have an unipolar world under a democratic power, than a multipolar world as there are less wars over influence. Of course the best world would be nonpolar world, where every country lives in peace with every other
@@GabagoolEnjoyer863 well it was at least... Until like the 50s, but now it is basicaly an oiligarchy between economicaly right wing parties with one being conservative and racist and the other ones are trying to seem not conservative and racist even tho they are two in a competition who is more corrupt.
@@matouskulhanek3320 Kind of defeats the point of your comment then. Even before the 50s the US without any regard for democracy invaded and meddled with foreign nations.
About the song, it was written in 1817 "To the veteran who begged for his bread" It's sad cause it's about a man who conquered the world but the only thing he got, at the end, is beg for bread or money. It was illegal (and concidered a crime) in France at this time. After the occupation of France (1815-1817), they change the law so the veterans were allowed to beg in the street. The only "gift" or reward they gave to them. (Sorry if it's not clear, english is not my native language)
When everything is over and you remember that once you conquered Moscow, saw the pyramids and the holy land, defeated mighty Prussia in 2 battles the same day and Belgium, the Nertherlands, northern Italy and west germany were french adminstrative divisions. Yes you can feel, a bit... nostalgic.
@@luansilvail the ukranians shelled everithing because they werre in war against pro russiams rebels they could just made peace with them instead of bombing everithing thats the only things i agree with you the rest is just pure propaganda
@@spvrivs As a algerian who come in France, I'm very sad to see this.... I'm muslim but I will not disrespect cathedral, Allah y Dhina... They make me shame
For those who are wondering, it was "Te Souviens Tu" (1817) that inspired "Ich Bin Soldat" (1870): the former is a nostalgic song about the Napoleonic wars, which is why it was used by the latter to make it a anti war song. It is quite common to find for each song its "anti-song" on the same tune in response. The special thing about this one is that I love both versions! Side note about hte context, the 1815-1848 period was a time of misery in France where the country suffered the return of the king, poverty, occupation and indeminities to be paid to the coalised. The veterans had no pensions and the bonapartists and republicans were forbidden to work in public institutions (including the army). Begging was forbidden in France, but given the importance of the phenomenon it was allowed for the veterans.
Les soldats virent leur soldes divisée par deux et les promesses sur la baise des impôts furent non respectés ce qui favorisa le retour de l’empereur en 1815 pour les 100 jour et Waterloo.
Instantly after i listened to it i know it had common with ich bin Soldat even though i cant even say a word of this i still find it good Thanks for the meaning of it
Europe shares multiple songs, like "Panzerlied" being used in the french and belgian paratroopers or "Le chant du diable" using the SS song melody but, of course, all the lyrics have been rewritten. That's incredible to see old rivals copying others, it shows the strong relations between Europe countries.
@@doolittle555 Well some SS tried to repay their debt in Indochina and they mostly did well. Now they are part of the history of the Legion. It's understandable to see why it's still in use in the Legion
The leaders of France who let Lebanon end up like it is now, are the same that have betrayed us to this day and destroying or selling our country bit by bit to foreign powers for their own personnal interests. I have deep nostalgia about what both our countries could be today. But thanksfully, we're great peoples and we have all the future to turn this around! Take care Lebanon
@@boutikadrezius7564 nothing more to say bro, our cancer, that is our leaders, is shared ahah... damn I wish those fuckers would only be our responsability but they bring their shit to the beautiful Lebanon too? I swear man idga shit if I'm a minor I'll follow the cgt, this macron zemel must fall. Si t'es français participes aux manifs, mobilises tes potes ta famille ton chien tout frr, et dis leur de faire la même. On peut pas le laisser. Si tu peux aller demain à 14h ya manif à Paris ❤
@@biodidu25 I was left wing before (I'm 23) but now I have lost the faith in the République so yes, I agree The Z was the only one that honoured that said "Vive l'Empereur" and for that (and his policies too ofc lol) he has all my support
@@BlackHawk2b same for me, I was left wing, but I realized that economically and socially speaking the left is not caring for us average citizens of middle/low class anymore... et en plus en France vous avez une droite patriote, républicaine et laïque, donc si j'étais français je n'aurais aucun doute sur qui voter.... mais en tant qu'italien nous on a une droite réligieuse et catholique et très arrierée sur bcp de questions... donc voilà en Italie c'est plus difficile :( je souhaite le meilleur à notre cher voisin, la France♥️ 🇲🇫
@@BlackHawk2b j'étais aussi pour le Z, mais sa politique libérale et la perte définitive de tout respect que j'avais pour la République me dissuadent de suivre sa voie. Et on peut dire que j'en ai suivis des mouvements, mais tous ne semblent pas saisir le véritable problème. L'immigration, la dette, notre déficit annuel dantesque, la perte de ferveur patriotique et encore bien d'autres ne sont que la suite logique de cette démocratie libérale. Car la seule fin logique à ce type de gouvernance est un individualisme paralysant rendant le terme même de nation ou d'appartenance culturelle obsolète. Et il est là le problème auquel nous avons trop peur de voir une solution. Bref, heureux de retrouver un autre patriote ici.
@@Danipiz666 J'espère que vos partis sauront se réformer afin d'apporter le meilleur à nos voisins latins ! Soyez fiers de disposer d'une droite à la ligne politique dure, il faudra tous les soutiens disponibles pour inverser la tendance.
What a nostalgic feeling for the Napoleonic veterans. This in short describes the victories of the Napoleonic armies. This is a tribute to them and their leader. Napoleon would have felt so proud on listening this.
Ce chant vous fouette le sang! Imaginez juste avoir participez aux campagnes de la Révolution, d'Egypte, d'Italie, d'Autriche, de Prusse, d'Espagne, de Russie et de France! D'avoir servi pour sa patrie, L'Empereur et son peuple et au final se retrouver a mendier pour avoir a mangez... Quel tristesse... Honneur et Gloire a ces immortels qui ont forger notre Pays et notre Histoire! Vive La France! Vive l'Empereur!
Vive la France républicaine, à bas les empereur, les rois et les trônes pourris. A bas l'esclavage que Napoléon a rétabli, à bas ses guerres de conquête qui ont des milliers et des milliers de morts.
@@Jaguar1910 mdrrr la république remplis de bobo gauchistes qui soutiennent les anti-Francais et veulent détruire notre culture! Ouais t'es beau! Mais de quoi tu parle toi? Ces guerres de conquêtes? Mdrrrr à part l'Espagne et l'Égypte, le reste c'était des guerres défensives, l'Empereur n'a fais que défendre les intérêt du peuple français, sort de chez toi, ouvre un livre jsp🤣
This song moved me to tears, I'm from Turin in Italy and we too were part of that great dream that was the empire of Napoleon. Time might have passed but the deeds and the idea to bring to the world glory, freedom and greatness are immortal . Viva l'imperatore!
As Pierre begged for a piece of bread, the aristocrats laughed, A man approached him, not giving him bread but extending his hand: "Jean?" Said Pierre in a happy but calm voice, Jean responded: "Get up Caporal", as Pierre got up, he looked behind Jean, seeing his old comrades, and fading images of officers and fallen comrades, seeing his eyes filling with tears of joy, another man with his old uniform approached Pierre and gave him a French eagle: "We need our old flag bearer back, don't forget Austerlitz, Salamanca and Waterloo my friend", the veterans happily marched and joked around the city, gathering their old comrades where they went, and some say, and the end of the march, at the sound of a company drum and fife, they sang this song together, Pierre always remembered to his dying days.. his last words being "I will see you all in heaven.. Vive l'Empereur".
Never forget. 6 Coalitions to beat a single country. 6 coalitions to beat brave French soldiers. 6 Coalitions, made of 18 countries to beat ONE country !
@@nicolasdubus669France couldn’t come close to doing that nowadays. If France faced the combined might of Italy, Russia, Germany, the UK , Austria, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Hungary and Türkiye, it would not win.
As an American, I love France for helping us, I love the Empire because I studied Napoleon for 4 years straight and his achievements gave us the modern world, Without him, We would never see Modern France, Germany and Italy would be fragments of an Isolated Idea, if it weren’t for him, America would probably be a Rump state subject to Britain all over again. Napoleon deserves more credit than he deserves, His Successes and Failures created our modern world, I give him credit where credit’s due because he did do some bad stuff, he did take Money out of the Italians pockets after he conquered them, He didn’t Bring back the Catholic Church until 1802. I believe Napoleon is merely an Enigma, he was many things, on one hand he was ambitious Conqueror that was hellbent on bringing Europe to its knees, but he was also defending himself against a Greater Number of European powers, Hellbent on Reducing his power, He was a Champion of Liberty, But he was also Responsible for restricting certain Liberties. He did many Good and Bad things, Napoleon’s Conquests shaped our Outlook on the world. He was a good man, But also a Bad man at the same time. I give him Credit for Shaping our World to what it is, and Many people still use his Laws to this day, all be it, With some Modifications to them. To this I say: Vive le France, Vive Le Napoléon, l’Empereur des Français.
America never officially declared war against France throughout history. Tensions still exist, but some of us Americans will never forget our brothers from across the pond who helped us in our infancy.
This is most sorrowful soldier song I ever heard. Napoleon was great commander and his grand armee were amazing. I respect Napoleon and who worked for him until last days of Napoleon. Vive La France!!!
@@lesbergersdarcadie634 oui mais c'est quand même un peu la langue international maintenant , donc pour qu'une majorité des personnes comprennent mon commentaire je le fais en anglais
Francesi, Italiani: una faccia, una razza! Viva le sorelle latine, unite per sempre da sangue, lingua, cultura, cucina, storia, religione, arte di vivere e amore per le cose belle! Con amicizia e fratellanza da un franco-italiano profondamente innamorato delle sue due patrie 🇫🇷❤️🇮🇹
@@lorenzod3667 as a french it’s cool to see Italians being positive towards us frenchies because I see so many Italian being butthurted because of a football match… that they won ! We French are less salty about this match even though we lost it ! This is the only time i see someone being salty while winning
I’m American and this song helped me respect France so much more considering their trials and tribulations. Every time they were knocked down, they got back up.
That’s why we will fight back all the time we guys use your surrender jokes bullshit. Definitely not deserved and it’s low iq because if you learn for 5 minutes about French military aspect or achievement, you’ll see that for its size and population, this country is on top of everything
"There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit." Napoleon Bonaparte
Te souviens-tu, disait un capitaine Au vétéran qui mendiait son pain, Te souviens-tu qu'autrefois dans la plaine, Tu détournas un sabre de mon sein ? Sous les drapeaux d'une mère chérie, Tous deux jadis nous avons combattu ; Je m'en souviens, car je te dois la vie : Mais, toi, soldat, dis-moi, t'en souviens-tu ? Te souviens-tu de ces jours trop rapides, Où le Français acquit tant de renom ! Te souviens-tu que sur les pyramides, Chacun de nous osa graver son nom ? Malgré les vents, malgré la terre et l'onde, On vit flotter, après l'avoir vaincu, Nos étendard sur le berceau du monde : Dis-moi, soldat, dis-moi, t'en souviens-tu ? Te souviens-tu que les preux d'Italie Ont vainement combattu contre nous ? Te souviens-tu que les preux d'Ibérie Devant nos chefs ont plié les genoux ? Te souviens-tu qu'aux champs de l'Allemagne Nos bataillons, arrivant impromptu, En quatre jours ont fait une campagne : Dis-moi, soldat, dis-moi, t'en souviens-tu ? Te souviens-tu de ces plaines glacées Que les Français, abordaient en vainqueur, Et sur leurs fronts les neiges amassées Glacer leurs corps sans refroidir leurs cœurs ? Souvent alors, au milieu des alarmes, Nos pleurs coulaient, mais notre œil abattu Brillait encore lorsqu'on volait aux armes Dis-moi, soldat, dis-moi, t'en souviens-tu? Te souviens- tu qu'un jour notre patrie Vivante encore descendit au cercueil, Et que l'on vit, dans Lutèce flétrie, Les étrangers marcher avec orgueil ? Garde en ton cœur ce jour pour le maudire, Garde en ton cœur ces voix qui se sont tues, Qu'un chef jamais n'ait besoin de te dire : Dis-moi, soldat, dis-moi, t'en souviens-tu ? Te souviens-tu ?... Mais ici ma voix tremble, Car je n'ai plus de noble souvenir ; Bientôt, l'ami, nous pleurerons ensemble, En attendant un meilleur avenir. Mais si la mort, planant sur nos chaumière, Me rappelait le repos qui m'est dû, Tu fermeras doucement ma paupière, En me disant Soldat,
My man has been beating the Austrians My man has defeated the Austrians and Russians combined My man died in the Russian snow My man was overstretched and now has to defend my man died in St Helena My man has been defeated by the British My man had beaten 4 coalitions My man had cemented his place in history My man has been to the Bastille My man was the ruler of Europe once. and so on. Reply if you would like to add more on what I got Edit: when you make a popular comment on a video and see all the comments, and the video having passed its glory days, you feel a bit of nostalgia
There is no god, because L'Empereur had to go to haven and then conquered havens and hell. French Empire still lives on, only with L'Empereur up in the skies...
"Only one man was alive back then in Europe; the remaining of the beings was trying to fill its lungs from the air he had breathed. Each year, France gave to this man the gift of 300 000 young men; and him, taking with a smile this new fiber torn from the heart of humanity, he twisted it between his hands, and made it a new string to his bow; then he placed on this bow one of these arrows that travelled trough the world, and went to fall in a little valley of a desert island, under a weeping willow. Never were there so many sleepless nights as in the time of this man; never was there seen leaning over the ramparts of the cities such a crowd of desolate mothers; never was there such silence around those who spoke of death. And yet never was there so much joy, so much life, so many hearts; never were there suns so pure as those which dried up all that blood. They said that God made them for this man, and they called them his Austerlitz suns. But he did them well himself with his always thundering cannons, which only left clouds after his battles. It was the air of that spotless sky, where so much glory shone, where so much steel shone, that children breathed then. They knew very well that they were destined for hecatombs; but they believed Murat to be invulnerable, and the Emperor had been seen to pass over a bridge where so many bullets were hissing that it was uncertain whether he might die." -Musset, The Confession of a child of the century, 1836 « Un seul homme était en vie alors en Europe ; le reste des êtres tâchait de se remplir les poumons de l'air qu'il avait respiré. Chaque année, La France faisait présent à cet homme de trois cent mille jeunes gens ; et lui, prenant avec un sourire cette fibre nouvelle arrachée au cœur de l'humanité, il la tordait entre ses mains, et en faisait une corde neuve à son arc ; puis il posait sur cet arc une de ces flèches qui traversèrent le monde, et s'en furent tomber dans une petite vallée d'une île déserte, sous un saule pleureur. Jamais il n'y eut tant de nuits sans sommeil que du temps de cet homme ; jamais on ne vit se pencher sur les remparts des villes un tel peuple de mères désolées ; jamais il n'y eut un tel silence autour de ceux qui parlaient de mort. Et pourtant jamais il n'y eut tant de joie, tant de vie, tant de cœurs ; jamais il n'y eut de soleils si purs que ceux qui séchèrent tout ce sang. On disait que Dieu les faisait pour cet homme, et on les appelait ses soleils d'Austerlitz. Mais il les faisait bien lui-même avec ses canons toujours tonnants, et qui ne laissaient de nuages qu'aux lendemains de ses batailles. C'était l'air de ce ciel sans tache, où brillait tant de gloire, où resplendissait tant d'acier, que les enfants respiraient alors. Ils savaient bien qu'ils étaient destinés aux hécatombes ; mais ils croyaient Murat invulnérable, et on avait vu passer l'Empereur sur un pont où sifflaient tant de balles, qu'on ne savait s'il pouvait mourir. » -Musset, La Confession d'un enfant du siècle, 1836
Il serait intelligent d'ouvrir un livre d'histoire et de comprendre que Napoléon n'a jamais déclaré de guerre et voulait la paix, son seul tord a était de ne jamais punir ceux qu'ils a défait pour préserver la France de nouvelles guerres car il pensait en faire des alliées.
@@LeGamerDuPalier Oui, clairement, c'est honteux de citer un monarchiste qui met la mort de soldats Français sur les seules épaules de l'Empereur alors qu'il n'a fait que défendre la République puis l'Empire.
@@ommsterlitz1805 Musset un monarchiste ? Ptdr va lire juste le premier chapitre de la Confession, il glorifie le premier empire, évoque un avenir prometteur qui n'arrive jamais, et critique vertement la restauration qui n'est qu'un vaste vide ennuyant.
0:04 - Kingdom of France, pre-revolution 0:47 - First French Republic, 1795 1:29 - First French Empire, post-invasion of Russia, 1807 2:11 - First French Empire, 1812 2:52 - First French Empire, Hundred-Days campaign, 1815 3:35 - Kingdom of France, defeat of Napoleon, 1815 I thought it was interesting that it started with the Bourbons and ended with the Bourbons..
France is a nation that does not deserve the modern representation that we westerners and English speakers gave it. The French have and will always be the most patriotic people in the world, and today if Napoleon were to come back from the dead. All of France would shout, "Vive l'empereur!" And that cry would be heard and chanted across the world. Vive la France.
@@Rodolphe-ds1beAs a Dane, the song hits at home. This war was arguably the nail in the coffin for us as a power. We were one of the only loyal French allies during the war (wrongfully shown in the video as controlled by France), and I can only dream of what could have been, had events turned out differently. All respects to the French people.
@@riendecacheriendesecret4202 ca reste un Bonaparte🤣 Et puis avec ses conquêtes, Napoléon s'imposait peu à peu comle l'unificateur de la péninsule, la preuve, il a été couronné roi d'Italie
In many ways it is a sweet song, nostalgic like all that is sweet in life. From a very young age I was taught to admire and love french history. I respectfully bow to the memory of the soldiers who defended the glory of France throughout Europe. Long live the France of always.
You should check on who declared wars. Napoléon conquered Europe because he had to do it for France and yes, he had ambition. Never Napoléon promoted genocide or this kind of stuff like Austrian. He brought the civil code and was the kind of man who was writting a mathematics treatise while crossing the Alps to beat the Austrians who declared war on France (not the other way around) at 27. There is no comparison between this genius and a hyper socialist delusionnal painter who went full auto when the school of art rejected him and when his country lost ww1.
France deserves it's recognision for taking berlin in 3 weeks because of davout and napoleon, has the most military victories, still has a small part of it's former empire today. VIVE LA FRANCE!
Mes amis, si vous saviez combien mon pays vous remercie de toujours aider la cause de l'indépendance de notre pays. Beaucoup d'amour de la Roumanie 🇷🇴❤️🇫🇷
Tout mon respect pour ton si beau pays, j'ai eu le bonheur d'avoir un ami roumain. Votre Histoire aussi a sa part de tristesse et je me souviendrai toujours de la façon dont votre grand peuple s'est débarrassé de Ceauxescu. Merci pour l'amitié dont votre pays a toujours fait preuve envers le mien et je suis fier que certains de nos soldats participent, avec d'autres, à vous aider à garantir votre sécurité au côté de votre armée
@nicolasdubus669 Je suis heureux que nous vous ayons comme alliés. La situation actuelle sur notre continent, en particulier la situation à l'Est, exige que nous collaborions autant que possible pour assurer la sécurité de l'Europe. Vive la France!
As a Pole, I thank Napoleon and France for giving us a few years of freedom in those times and a few years of hope to regain our former glory. We returned the favor by being great allies until the end. Forever 🇵🇱❤️🇫🇷.
The Poles of Posen should have refused to fight for Prussia against France in 1870 and 1914. They should revolt against Prussian rule and make the King of Prussia weep in his golden palaces.
@kategogy Poles from Poznań fighting on the side of Prussia were forcibly enlisted in the army. Poles were severely persecuted under German rule in the years 1795-1914, and especially in the second half of the 19th century. Read about Drzymała's wagon and the children from Września.
@kategogy Poles rebelled against Prussia many times, read about the Greater Poland Uprising and student strikes, but neither against Prussia nor against Russia, no one ever helped us.
@kategogy In 1914, Poles fought on the side of Germany because it was the Germans who first promised us independence. Remember that Poland's main enemy has always been, is and will be Russia. In 1914, Russia, a member of the Entente, was our main occupier. The Entente's victory was not profitable for us at that moment.
@@RakusCK There were many Poles ruled by Prussia in 1870, did they participate in the war of 1870? It breaks my heart to think the Poles fighting for Prussia against the French.
My man was born on the 15th août of 1769 My man learned in France without any friends and being bullied My man kicked *ss of British in Toulon My man goes to Italy and defeat Austrian at Arcole My man goes to Egypt and found the famous Pierre of rosette My man became 1st consul in 1799 My man goes back to Italy to kick *ss of Austrian My man crowned himself emperor of the French in 1804 My man defeated the Russia and Austrian at Austerlitz in 1805 My man resisted to 4th coalition My man abdicated in 1814 but he came back My man got defeat at Waterloo in 1815 by the British and Prussian My man got exiled at sainte helena My man died on the 5th may of 1821 My man come back in paris on the 15th of December of 1840 My man maybe died but he is still in the heart of french history and mine.. My man is a hero who will never be forgotten and what he did too Vive l'empereur vive la France 🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️🟥🟥🟥🟥 🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️🟥🟥🟥🟥 🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️🟥🟥🟥🟥 🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️🟥🟥🟥🟥 🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️🟥🟥🟥🟥 🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️🟥🟥🟥🟥 🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️🟥🟥🟥🟥 🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️🟥🟥🟥🟥
"The ideas that underpin our modern world-meritocracy, equality before the law, property rights, religious toleration, modern secular education, sound finances, and so on-were championed, consolidated, codified and geographically extended by Napoleon. To them he added a rational and efficient local administration, an end to rural banditry, the encouragement of science and the arts, the abolition of feudalism and the greatest codification of laws since the fall of the Roman Empire. " -Andrew Roberts, British historian.
Vivent les Rois légitimes qui ont aimé et bâti la France depuis Clovis, mais vive l’Empereur quand même, grand homme de l’Histoire qui marqua la France, l’Europe et le monde pour toujours. (Et vive même son malheureux neveu, Napoléon III, qui a lui aussi fait de grandes choses pour la France, malgré sa fin indigne.) En tant que Légitimiste, je soutiens évidemment le droit héréditaire de Monseigneur Louis XX, mais à choisir, je préfère infiniment la sincérité, la bravoure et la méritocratie d’un Bonapartiste aux magouilles affairistes, maçonniques et parricides d’un Orléaniste. (Et ne parlons même pas des Républicains, qui ont passé deux siècles et demi à traîner notre drapeau, notre patrie, notre peuple dans la boue de la disgrâce, la défaite, la banqueroute, la transformation culturelle forcée, l’insécurité galopante, etc. Par leur faute, par leur corruption morale et financière, nous sommes devenus la risée de l’Europe et du monde…) Vivement le retour du Roy - ou même de l’Empereur - pour sortir la France de son sommeil et de lui rappeler le glorieux destin qui lui est promis par Dieu et la Vierge !
I'd just like to point out as a french that you may see we talk about the brave of italy of iberia, a privilege not given to other nations. Fratelli latini, hermanos latinos, frères latins
Bien dit et si un pays a largement participé à la chute de l'Empire c'est bien l'Espagne qui nous a fait vivre l'enfer. Un François est capable d'admirer ses ennemis quand ils se battent pour de bonnes raisons. C'est pourquoi nous ne parlerons pas des Anglais
My man has been in the land of pharous My man made the italian peninsula his own My man made the spaniards knee in front of him My man walked his horse through the gates of Brandenburg My man made Europe his own My man froze in Russia My man saw his dream collapse My man left a nation in mourning May my man he rest in peace
0:01 - Post-Hundred Days and Occupation of France, 1817~ 0:47 - Italian Campaign, 1796-1797 0:54 - Egypt and Syrian Campaign, 1798-1801 1:29 - Italian Campaign, 1792-1801 or 1805-1806 1:39 - Peninsular War, 1807/1808-1814 1:44 - Jena-Auestedt or Eylau and Fourth Coalition, 1806-1807 1:51 - "Four Days Campaign", 1809 2:10 - Invasion of Russia, 1812 2:52 - French Campaign and Sixth Coalition 1813-1814 3:35 - Post Sixth Coalition - 1814-1815
I'm algerian, and though you might expect me to hate France and its history, I actually really like it and respect it, I still hate the colonial stuff but it's been 60 years since that ended, so I think our people should move on at this point I hope both countries find peace one day 🇩🇿💚🇫🇷
@@ommsterlitz1805 Techniquement l'Empire était toujours Republique. Napoléon avait été nommé par le Parlement (même si il leur a un peu forcé la main) et ce n'était pas lui qui dirigeait directement même si il avait pas mal de pouvoir Tout au plus une République Impériale
@@abysslheritier2252 C'est bien ce qui a causé sa perte Napoléon III ne voulait pas de guerre en 1870 contrairement aux ldlots de journalistes qui ont aggraver la crise et pousser le peuple et les parlementaires à ce résultat.
I know Napoleon conquered almost all of Europe and people hate him for the type of ideology and his power, but in reality he really did good for the French nation. He brought his people back and freed them. Now that the veterans of the war died, he rested in his bed. One last salute before he died at the age of 53. This dude respected before he died. He brightened all of France.
The background chorus sounds like some ambient track to Baldur's Gate or Planescape Torment, an old RPG like that, cool chant. And awesome somber lyrics
@@luansilvail So -1: how does that justify an illegal invasion and killing civilians (because i suppose you are one of those failures of a human being who support putin) -2: ever bothered thinking about why the ukrainians did that? Well bacause stalin was just as bad as the germans and espacially towards ukrainians, making it normal to think the germans would be better (no one knew about the massacres yet) -3:after seeing the horrible things the germans did many ukrainians started resisting -4: there were also russian collaborators in ww2 like andrey vlasov and his soldiers -5: as you seem to really despise n*zis (and that is good) and think ukrainians should have resisted more then you should be happy for them fighting against a dictatorship spreading propaganda, being revisionist, expantionist and killing civilians
@@luansilvail Do you know that Napoleonic wars was a succession of French Victory against more powerful contries ? We are the country that win the most war of all history of humanity so your sentence is totaly stupid. By the way, even if the Empire didn't survive, The Revolutionnary Ideals survived, and that was the real thing that European Monarch where fighting. Thats why Napoleonics wars are a victory : Today, most of Europe is a Democratia, and that was the point of Napoleonics wars.
There’s also a Polish song to this melody - it has various titles: „Pułk czwarty”, „Tysiąc walecznych”, „Walecznych tysiąc opuszcza Warszawę”, „Ostatnich dziesięciu z czwartego regimentu” - all about the 4th Regiment fighting the Russian Empire as a part of November Uprising. There’s also another song - „Śpiew rotmistrza” or „Czyli pamiętasz?”, about Kościuszko’s insurgency and Napoleonic wars.
For nearly two years I sang this to my daughter to put her to sleep. This and "La Strasbourgeoise" were the only songs that would have her fall asleep 🙏🏻
Tell her that as long as she'll breath some brave French will be ready to stand against anyone who'll try to steal her freedom to be who she wants to be even if they have no chance to win
Even tho i have no french ancestry, dna or germany dna for that matter, i felt something in my heart, like the fall of napoleon changed the course of my future somehow and this song hit me right in the heart, i love you napoleon ❤
Imaginez ces soldats. La plupart étaient des paysans opprimés pendant des siècles qui, soudainement, sont devenus le conquereurs du monde grâce à son Empereur. Napoléon était l'âme du monde, comme a dit Hegel.
When he heard that Napoleon's remains were coming back to France, Marshall Moncey, one of the last Empire marshalls still alive, and dying from old age and weakness, begged his doctor to stuff him woth enough drugs to honour his Emperor one last time.
When the coffin passed, he was here, in his regalia, saluting the man he had served and still revered. When it was lowered at the Invalides, he was one of the few who got to dip a bay tree branch in Holy Water and spray it over the coffin. When all was said and done, the only thing he said was: "Now the last thing I have to do is go home and die". True to his word, he passed quickly afterwards.
And that was only one of many. All over Paris, hundreds of men had donned their old uniform to salute THE Emperor, the one they would still follow if he rose again.
When was this?
@@mojewjewjew4420 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retour_des_cendres
@@mojewjewjew4420 1841
Yes.
It reminds me of the story of San Martín and why his tomb is guarded by 7 grenadiers. When he died and his remains were taken to Buenos Aires, all the Grenadiers on Horseback who were still alive put on their uniform and spontaneously went to look for him and stand guard with him all night. In total there were only 7. Incredible the loyalty that men had for their generals at that time
just noticed with every verse, the map of napoleonic france grows bigger then reverts to its state at the first verse as the kingdom of france
I really like that detail
@@luansilvail well better have an unipolar world under a democratic power, than a multipolar world as there are less wars over influence. Of course the best world would be nonpolar world, where every country lives in peace with every other
@@matouskulhanek3320 America being described as "democratic" is the funniest thing I've heard in a while
@@GabagoolEnjoyer863 well it was at least... Until like the 50s, but now it is basicaly an oiligarchy between
economicaly right wing parties with one being conservative and racist and the other ones are trying to seem not conservative and racist even tho they are two in a competition who is more corrupt.
@@matouskulhanek3320 Kind of defeats the point of your comment then. Even before the 50s the US without any regard for democracy invaded and meddled with foreign nations.
About the song, it was written in 1817
"To the veteran who begged for his bread"
It's sad cause it's about a man who conquered the world but the only thing he got, at the end, is beg for bread or money. It was illegal (and concidered a crime) in France at this time. After the occupation of France (1815-1817), they change the law so the veterans were allowed to beg in the street. The only "gift" or reward they gave to them. (Sorry if it's not clear, english is not my native language)
It’s extremely clear, your English is excellent
No problem. You speak English so well I would've thought you an English speaker
The King Hated the empire and all who stood for it, including the veterans
Your English is fine other than a few gramical errors
My friend your English are very good I don't see anything unclear
When everything is over and you remember that once you conquered Moscow, saw the pyramids and the holy land, defeated mighty Prussia in 2 battles the same day and Belgium, the Nertherlands, northern Italy and west germany were french adminstrative divisions.
Yes you can feel, a bit... nostalgic.
@@luansilvail I used to deny the rumors of Russian bots. And then I saw you
@@luansilvail So what? Should we just watch Russia enslave an independent nation?
@@luansilvail What in the holy mother of Russian bots.
Austria was mightier than Prussia at that time. And you can also mention Spain (but why the holy land ?)
@@luansilvail “special military operation” who are you kidding, it’s an invasion plain and simple.
This is such a sad, nostalgic but calming song... I love it.
NOSTALGIC? You've got some explaining to do!
@@angrybeardmantm6830 fr my guy acts like he has time traveled.
@@luansilvail tankie
@@theplanetmercury7487 Fuck tankie
@@luansilvail the ukranians shelled everithing because they werre in war against pro russiams rebels they could just made peace with them instead of bombing everithing thats the only things i agree with you the rest is just pure propaganda
"Do you remember that on the pyramids, each of us dared to engrave his name"
Damn this line hit hard in my French heart
I'm Brazilian and for some reason that hit me hard too
It's sad that now rather the Maghrebians could dare to less a grafitti on the St-Denis cathedral 😢
C'est tellement nostalgique...
@@spvrivs As a algerian who come in France, I'm very sad to see this.... I'm muslim but I will not disrespect cathedral, Allah y Dhina... They make me shame
@@leradispasencoreirradie2654 tes un frère toi 👏
It's so sad yet soothing in a way, I absolutely love it!
Much love, my French brethren, from little Belgium!
J'étais à Waterloo il y a deux semaines. Magnifique site !
🇫🇷❤
God bless Belgium🇧🇪, from Wales 🏴
There is also a Belgian version of this song in Walloon language : "Li Pantalon trawé"
@@Lorddonen god bless cymru from USA
For those who are wondering, it was "Te Souviens Tu" (1817) that inspired "Ich Bin Soldat" (1870): the former is a nostalgic song about the Napoleonic wars, which is why it was used by the latter to make it a anti war song.
It is quite common to find for each song its "anti-song" on the same tune in response. The special thing about this one is that I love both versions!
Side note about hte context, the 1815-1848 period was a time of misery in France where the country suffered the return of the king, poverty, occupation and indeminities to be paid to the coalised. The veterans had no pensions and the bonapartists and republicans were forbidden to work in public institutions (including the army). Begging was forbidden in France, but given the importance of the phenomenon it was allowed for the veterans.
It also inpired "Paris pour un beafsteak" (a song for the Paris Commune)
Les soldats virent leur soldes divisée par deux et les promesses sur la baise des impôts furent non respectés ce qui favorisa le retour de l’empereur en 1815 pour les 100 jour et Waterloo.
Instantly after i listened to it i know it had common with ich bin Soldat even though i cant even say a word of this i still find it good
Thanks for the meaning of it
actually original comes from Poland "Walecznych Tysiąc" written in 1832 by Julius Mosen a german poet
@@avocadogaming5908 "Te Souviens Tu" was composed in 1817
I really love how the tune is the same as to the german anti-war song "ich bin soldat"
and it's the same as " Paris pour un bifteck". A song which parody pacifism.
Europe shares multiple songs, like "Panzerlied" being used in the french and belgian paratroopers or "Le chant du diable" using the SS song melody but, of course, all the lyrics have been rewritten.
That's incredible to see old rivals copying others, it shows the strong relations between Europe countries.
@@WillySalami yes I know, and it’s very surprising to see it reused nowadays.
"Ich bin soldat" come from "te souviens tu".
@@doolittle555 Well some SS tried to repay their debt in Indochina and they mostly did well. Now they are part of the history of the Legion. It's understandable to see why it's still in use in the Legion
Love From Lebanon. Vive la France ! 🇫🇷❤️🇱🇧
Merci ❤
The leaders of France who let Lebanon end up like it is now, are the same that have betrayed us to this day and destroying or selling our country bit by bit to foreign powers for their own personnal interests. I have deep nostalgia about what both our countries could be today. But thanksfully, we're great peoples and we have all the future to turn this around! Take care Lebanon
@@boutikadrezius7564 nothing more to say bro, our cancer, that is our leaders, is shared ahah... damn I wish those fuckers would only be our responsability but they bring their shit to the beautiful Lebanon too? I swear man idga shit if I'm a minor I'll follow the cgt, this macron zemel must fall. Si t'es français participes aux manifs, mobilises tes potes ta famille ton chien tout frr, et dis leur de faire la même. On peut pas le laisser. Si tu peux aller demain à 14h ya manif à Paris ❤
Merci
ENFIN ! Ça faisait longtemps que je l'attendais.
Quand j'écoute cette musique j'en pleure de l'eau bénite !
This makes me sad and nostalgic for a period that ended over 200 years ago and for a country that is not my own. Respect from your old ally the USA
Merci, brother
@@biodidu25 I was left wing before (I'm 23) but now I have lost the faith in the République so yes, I agree
The Z was the only one that honoured that said "Vive l'Empereur" and for that (and his policies too ofc lol) he has all my support
@@BlackHawk2b same for me, I was left wing, but I realized that economically and socially speaking the left is not caring for us average citizens of middle/low class anymore... et en plus en France vous avez une droite patriote, républicaine et laïque, donc si j'étais français je n'aurais aucun doute sur qui voter.... mais en tant qu'italien nous on a une droite réligieuse et catholique et très arrierée sur bcp de questions... donc voilà en Italie c'est plus difficile :( je souhaite le meilleur à notre cher voisin, la France♥️ 🇲🇫
@@BlackHawk2b j'étais aussi pour le Z, mais sa politique libérale et la perte définitive de tout respect que j'avais pour la République me dissuadent de suivre sa voie.
Et on peut dire que j'en ai suivis des mouvements, mais tous ne semblent pas saisir le véritable problème.
L'immigration, la dette, notre déficit annuel dantesque, la perte de ferveur patriotique et encore bien d'autres ne sont que la suite logique de cette démocratie libérale.
Car la seule fin logique à ce type de gouvernance est un individualisme paralysant rendant le terme même de nation ou d'appartenance culturelle obsolète. Et il est là le problème auquel nous avons trop peur de voir une solution.
Bref, heureux de retrouver un autre patriote ici.
@@Danipiz666 J'espère que vos partis sauront se réformer afin d'apporter le meilleur à nos voisins latins !
Soyez fiers de disposer d'une droite à la ligne politique dure, il faudra tous les soutiens disponibles pour inverser la tendance.
What a nostalgic feeling for the Napoleonic veterans. This in short describes the victories of the Napoleonic armies. This is a tribute to them and their leader. Napoleon would have felt so proud on listening this.
Maharashtra?
he should have stop after Austerlitz, Europe could still be ours
@@AgentK-im8ke ah well, napoleon is an ambitious fellow
@@lyrisio too much unfortunately
@@AgentK-im8ke indeed.
Ce chant vous fouette le sang! Imaginez juste avoir participez aux campagnes de la Révolution, d'Egypte, d'Italie, d'Autriche, de Prusse, d'Espagne, de Russie et de France! D'avoir servi pour sa patrie, L'Empereur et son peuple et au final se retrouver a mendier pour avoir a mangez... Quel tristesse... Honneur et Gloire a ces immortels qui ont forger notre Pays et notre Histoire! Vive La France! Vive l'Empereur!
Vive les grognards
Vive notre France !
Vive la France républicaine, à bas les empereur, les rois et les trônes pourris. A bas l'esclavage que Napoléon a rétabli, à bas ses guerres de conquête qui ont des milliers et des milliers de morts.
@@Jaguar1910 mdrrr la république remplis de bobo gauchistes qui soutiennent les anti-Francais et veulent détruire notre culture! Ouais t'es beau! Mais de quoi tu parle toi? Ces guerres de conquêtes? Mdrrrr à part l'Espagne et l'Égypte, le reste c'était des guerres défensives, l'Empereur n'a fais que défendre les intérêt du peuple français, sort de chez toi, ouvre un livre jsp🤣
20 ans d'une vie.
Je ne connaissais pas cette chanson et je suis content de l'avoir découverte.
I am happy for discovery of this song and sad for story that this song holds...
@@Legoslavzed-1618- Me too.
@@Kevin63GachaandGMOD How bad you must be to put veteran on streets just with right to beg for some coins and moldy bread...
@@Legoslavzed-1618- It's sad, but sometimes it's hard to find a job.
@@Kevin63GachaandGMOD in france was beging illegal but tsar made it legal as a punishment for enemy...
This song moved me to tears, I'm from Turin in Italy and we too were part of that great dream that was the empire of Napoleon. Time might have passed but the deeds and the idea to bring to the world glory, freedom and greatness are immortal . Viva l'imperatore!
we also remember the light of Rome.
We remember we didn't want French here in Italy
🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹
@@NoName-hg6cc Only the barbarious Neapolitans and Sicilians didn't, actually
@@DaDa-ui3sw Veneto, Lombardy, Piedmont, Aosta etc...nobody wanted those useless lazy bunch
@@NoName-hg6cc lies, learn your history
The French have amazing songs, just like the language :)
@@luansilvail ???
WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT UKRAINE YOU CRAZY !
Tu as raison le français est une belle langue 🙏 l’ukrainien aussi j’aime bien cette langue 🇨🇦🙏🇺🇦
@@gabriellebel1870 🇨🇵
wouldn't way so tbh, I don't like the french language at all, I learn it at school and its so hard, or maybe I am just brain dead
@@luansilvail The national interest of the west is the destruction of the russian idea, much like Prussia was destroyed post ww2
As Pierre begged for a piece of bread, the aristocrats laughed, A man approached him, not giving him bread but extending his hand: "Jean?" Said Pierre in a happy but calm voice, Jean responded: "Get up Caporal", as Pierre got up, he looked behind Jean, seeing his old comrades, and fading images of officers and fallen comrades, seeing his eyes filling with tears of joy, another man with his old uniform approached Pierre and gave him a French eagle: "We need our old flag bearer back, don't forget Austerlitz, Salamanca and Waterloo my friend", the veterans happily marched and joked around the city, gathering their old comrades where they went, and some say, and the end of the march, at the sound of a company drum and fife, they sang this song together, Pierre always remembered to his dying days.. his last words being "I will see you all in heaven.. Vive l'Empereur".
In which piece of art does this text exists?
@@alpaytemur6730 i wrote it meself, the text.
@@thebrazilianhistorian6530 well written mate
@@thebrazilianhistorian6530 muita criatividade e tempo livre
Vive la France surtout
" Te souviens tu que sur les pyramides, chacun de nous osa graver son nom"
Les larmes aux yeux. Vive la France éternelle
I really like that the different voices had a verse of their own, like they were other soldiers with distinct memories.
Never forget. 6 Coalitions to beat a single country. 6 coalitions to beat brave French soldiers. 6 Coalitions, made of 18 countries to beat ONE country !
The best thing is the first one like France is completely in mess an say fuck you all ! Valmy battle is crazy !
Mocking us is their way to avoid to fear us
@@nicolasdubus669France couldn’t come close to doing that nowadays. If France faced the combined might of Italy, Russia, Germany, the UK , Austria, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Hungary and Türkiye, it would not win.
@@Jim-li7xb who can win today in front of so many nations with modern weapons ? What's the point ?
@@nicolasdubus669 my point is, like so many other European nations, France’s glory days are over.
As an American thank you France for helping us achieve freedom and I respect napoleons and all your people
Thank you citizen
As an American, I love France for helping us, I love the Empire because I studied Napoleon for 4 years straight and his achievements gave us the modern world, Without him, We would never see Modern France, Germany and Italy would be fragments of an Isolated Idea, if it weren’t for him, America would probably be a Rump state subject to Britain all over again. Napoleon deserves more credit than he deserves, His Successes and Failures created our modern world, I give him credit where credit’s due because he did do some bad stuff, he did take Money out of the Italians pockets after he conquered them, He didn’t Bring back the Catholic Church until 1802. I believe Napoleon is merely an Enigma, he was many things, on one hand he was ambitious Conqueror that was hellbent on bringing Europe to its knees, but he was also defending himself against a Greater Number of European powers, Hellbent on Reducing his power, He was a Champion of Liberty, But he was also Responsible for restricting certain Liberties. He did many Good and Bad things, Napoleon’s Conquests shaped our Outlook on the world. He was a good man, But also a Bad man at the same time. I give him Credit for Shaping our World to what it is, and Many people still use his Laws to this day, all be it, With some Modifications to them. To this I say: Vive le France, Vive Le Napoléon, l’Empereur des Français.
@@historyforlife1019 France was never afraid to be a paradox so was his Emperor
As a French, thank you USA for helping us achieve freedom in 1941-1945. God bless America et Vive la France
America never officially declared war against France throughout history. Tensions still exist, but some of us Americans will never forget our brothers from across the pond who helped us in our infancy.
This is most sorrowful soldier song I ever heard. Napoleon was great commander and his grand armee were amazing. I respect Napoleon and who worked for him until last days of Napoleon.
Vive La France!!!
I’m still waiting for Napoléon Bonaparte to come back, I need him.😩
How horryblle you must be to put old war veteran on streets and let him to beg for money and food?...
@@Legoslavzed-1618- Joys of monarchy
@@Legoslavzed-1618- that’s how the British government is
if you want another sorrowful tune look up Ich Hatt Einen Kameraden
If the Napoleonic Wars had a credits song this would be it
or O Generale
Napoleon was alive when this music was written, but he was exiled in the isolated island of "Saint Helena" .
Le grand Napoléon qui a conquis et dominer l'Europe.Vive l'empereur !Vive l'empire !Vive la France !
It's incredible i had this song in mind the whole week and you post it , perfection.
yeah ingen is sus
la perfide albion dans son hypocrisie habituelle depuis 200 ans .....
@@lesbergersdarcadie634 tu dit ça pour qui , moi ou la personne qui a écrit la première réponse ? Car je ne vois pas le rapport avec mon commentaire.
@@unmecrandom1 l'anglais a toujours été et faut allié , donc c'est pas pour toi
@@lesbergersdarcadie634 oui mais c'est quand même un peu la langue international maintenant , donc pour qu'une majorité des personnes comprennent mon commentaire je le fais en anglais
Love for France from Italy 🇮🇹❤️🇨🇵
Vive l'Empereur!
Francesi, Italiani: una faccia, una razza!
Viva le sorelle latine, unite per sempre da sangue, lingua, cultura, cucina, storia, religione, arte di vivere e amore per le cose belle!
Con amicizia e fratellanza da un franco-italiano profondamente innamorato delle sue due patrie 🇫🇷❤️🇮🇹
@@wopfrog007 Assolutamente, viva i fratelli delle Alpi !
@@lorenzod3667 as a french it’s cool to see Italians being positive towards us frenchies because I see so many Italian being butthurted because of a football match… that they won ! We French are less salty about this match even though we lost it ! This is the only time i see someone being salty while winning
Love Italy from France 🇨🇵🥰🇮🇹
@@wopfrog007 ma il una faccia, una razza e fra greci e italiani,
Awesome, Ingen. Very nice song you have found here, it will probably go to my playlist
I’m American and this song helped me respect France so much more considering their trials and tribulations. Every time they were knocked down, they got back up.
That’s why we will fight back all the time we guys use your surrender jokes bullshit. Definitely not deserved and it’s low iq because if you learn for 5 minutes about French military aspect or achievement, you’ll see that for its size and population, this country is on top of everything
American should look a bit at geography. Pretty easy to understand that France is totally surrounded. Worst place ever to start.
@@gringologie9302 and France hold. France exists since 9th century. One of the oldest country in Europe and maybe the world
@@abysslheritier2252 *6th century
@@cathonatio8100 i count around Charlemagne. But yeah, technically France exists since Clovis
"There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Love France from France 🇨🇵❤🇨🇵
Hi
@@kos_78 Hello there
@@luansilvail Russians Collaborated With The Nazis Too You Commie Sympathizer
@@luansilvail This must be the weirdest time to get political
@@INVAILDNAME True
Te souviens-tu, disait un capitaine
Au vétéran qui mendiait son pain,
Te souviens-tu qu'autrefois dans la plaine,
Tu détournas un sabre de mon sein ?
Sous les drapeaux d'une mère chérie,
Tous deux jadis nous avons combattu ;
Je m'en souviens, car je te dois la vie :
Mais, toi, soldat, dis-moi, t'en souviens-tu ?
Te souviens-tu de ces jours trop rapides,
Où le Français acquit tant de renom !
Te souviens-tu que sur les pyramides,
Chacun de nous osa graver son nom ?
Malgré les vents, malgré la terre et l'onde,
On vit flotter, après l'avoir vaincu,
Nos étendard sur le berceau du monde :
Dis-moi, soldat, dis-moi, t'en souviens-tu ?
Te souviens-tu que les preux d'Italie
Ont vainement combattu contre nous ?
Te souviens-tu que les preux d'Ibérie
Devant nos chefs ont plié les genoux ?
Te souviens-tu qu'aux champs de l'Allemagne
Nos bataillons, arrivant impromptu,
En quatre jours ont fait une campagne :
Dis-moi, soldat, dis-moi, t'en souviens-tu ?
Te souviens-tu de ces plaines glacées
Que les Français, abordaient en vainqueur,
Et sur leurs fronts les neiges amassées
Glacer leurs corps sans refroidir leurs cœurs ?
Souvent alors, au milieu des alarmes,
Nos pleurs coulaient, mais notre œil abattu
Brillait encore lorsqu'on volait aux armes
Dis-moi, soldat, dis-moi, t'en souviens-tu?
Te souviens- tu qu'un jour notre patrie
Vivante encore descendit au cercueil,
Et que l'on vit, dans Lutèce flétrie,
Les étrangers marcher avec orgueil ?
Garde en ton cœur ce jour pour le maudire,
Garde en ton cœur ces voix qui se sont tues,
Qu'un chef jamais n'ait besoin de te dire :
Dis-moi, soldat, dis-moi, t'en souviens-tu ?
Te souviens-tu ?... Mais ici ma voix tremble,
Car je n'ai plus de noble souvenir ;
Bientôt, l'ami, nous pleurerons ensemble,
En attendant un meilleur avenir.
Mais si la mort, planant sur nos chaumière,
Me rappelait le repos qui m'est dû,
Tu fermeras doucement ma paupière,
En me disant Soldat,
merci d'avoir mis en ligne ce texte universel
Vive la Nation ! Vive l'Empereur !
My man has been beating the Austrians
My man has defeated the Austrians and Russians combined
My man died in the Russian snow
My man was overstretched and now has to defend
my man died in St Helena
My man has been defeated by the British
My man had beaten 4 coalitions
My man had cemented his place in history
My man has been to the Bastille
My man was the ruler of Europe once.
and so on. Reply if you would like to add more on what I got
Edit: when you make a popular comment on a video and see all the comments, and the video having passed its glory days, you feel a bit of nostalgia
My man cemented America's manifest destiny
My man has been defeated next to glorios pyramids.
My man made a march about onions
My man baked bread
My man is an average height for that time.
i feel some connection with napoleon because i’m such a big fan of him and what he did, rest in peace L’Empereur
There is no god, because L'Empereur had to go to haven and then conquered havens and hell.
French Empire still lives on, only with L'Empereur up in the skies...
@@Legoslavzed-1618- sure...
@@dyflin3246 I think it comes from a book it's not his own words bro it's a quote
"Only one man was alive back then in Europe; the remaining of the beings was trying to fill its lungs from the air he had breathed. Each year, France gave to this man the gift of 300 000 young men; and him, taking with a smile this new fiber torn from the heart of humanity, he twisted it between his hands, and made it a new string to his bow; then he placed on this bow one of these arrows that travelled trough the world, and went to fall in a little valley of a desert island, under a weeping willow.
Never were there so many sleepless nights as in the time of this man; never was there seen leaning over the ramparts of the cities such a crowd of desolate mothers; never was there such silence around those who spoke of death. And yet never was there so much joy, so much life, so many hearts; never were there suns so pure as those which dried up all that blood. They said that God made them for this man, and they called them his Austerlitz suns. But he did them well himself with his always thundering cannons, which only left clouds after his battles.
It was the air of that spotless sky, where so much glory shone, where so much steel shone, that children breathed then. They knew very well that they were destined for hecatombs; but they believed Murat to be invulnerable, and the Emperor had been seen to pass over a bridge where so many bullets were hissing that it was uncertain whether he might die."
-Musset, The Confession of a child of the century, 1836
« Un seul homme était en vie alors en Europe ; le reste des êtres tâchait de se remplir les poumons de l'air qu'il avait respiré. Chaque année, La France faisait présent à cet homme de trois cent mille jeunes gens ; et lui, prenant avec un sourire cette fibre nouvelle arrachée au cœur de l'humanité, il la tordait entre ses mains, et en faisait une corde neuve à son arc ; puis il posait sur cet arc une de ces flèches qui traversèrent le monde, et s'en furent tomber dans une petite vallée d'une île déserte, sous un saule pleureur.
Jamais il n'y eut tant de nuits sans sommeil que du temps de cet homme ; jamais on ne vit se pencher sur les remparts des villes un tel peuple de mères désolées ; jamais il n'y eut un tel silence autour de ceux qui parlaient de mort. Et pourtant jamais il n'y eut tant de joie, tant de vie, tant de cœurs ; jamais il n'y eut de soleils si purs que ceux qui séchèrent tout ce sang. On disait que Dieu les faisait pour cet homme, et on les appelait ses soleils d'Austerlitz. Mais il les faisait bien lui-même avec ses canons toujours tonnants, et qui ne laissaient de nuages qu'aux lendemains de ses batailles.
C'était l'air de ce ciel sans tache, où brillait tant de gloire, où resplendissait tant d'acier, que les enfants respiraient alors. Ils savaient bien qu'ils étaient destinés aux hécatombes ; mais ils croyaient Murat invulnérable, et on avait vu passer l'Empereur sur un pont où sifflaient tant de balles, qu'on ne savait s'il pouvait mourir. »
-Musset, La Confession d'un enfant du siècle, 1836
Il serait intelligent d'ouvrir un livre d'histoire et de comprendre que Napoléon n'a jamais déclaré de guerre et voulait la paix, son seul tord a était de ne jamais punir ceux qu'ils a défait pour préserver la France de nouvelles guerres car il pensait en faire des alliées.
@@ommsterlitz1805 comment ça « il serait intelligent d'ouvrir un livre d'histoire » ? Tu crois que je ne m'y connais pas ?
@@LeGamerDuPalier Oui, clairement, c'est honteux de citer un monarchiste qui met la mort de soldats Français sur les seules épaules de l'Empereur alors qu'il n'a fait que défendre la République puis l'Empire.
@@ommsterlitz1805 Musset un monarchiste ? Ptdr va lire juste le premier chapitre de la Confession, il glorifie le premier empire, évoque un avenir prometteur qui n'arrive jamais, et critique vertement la restauration qui n'est qu'un vaste vide ennuyant.
I love this song. Thank you
0:04 - Kingdom of France, pre-revolution
0:47 - First French Republic, 1795
1:29 - First French Empire, post-invasion of Russia, 1807
2:11 - First French Empire, 1812
2:52 - First French Empire, Hundred-Days campaign, 1815
3:35 - Kingdom of France, defeat of Napoleon, 1815
I thought it was interesting that it started with the Bourbons and ended with the Bourbons..
pretty sure the 1815 is actually 1814
2:52 - First French Empire, 1814 Sixth coalition. French campaign.
3:35 - Kingdom of France, 1814 Aftermath of the Sixth coalition.
I love how the image of France changes size for every historical period for every chant
It's so calming. It's my favorite song
I love how the map evolves as the song Goes, Before Gradually returning to it's original Boundaries
Dont cry because it is over, smile because it happened.
your pfp fits this comment lol
Say this to French people…
@@dominionofquebec10452 Vintage quote, vintage meme. Here's to simpler times.
@@tuomosalo2029 that and because his pfp is literally smiling and crying
One of my ancestors fought on the side of Napoleon, and i am proud, that he did.
Be proud.
He did from white terror, from monarchy with no economy glorious and wealthy empire and got defeated because of tsarist betrayl.
i have one, who fought at Wagram
@@kuroyami84 same here, crazy to think that our ancestors fought a battle 200 years ago and now we meet here
This song makes me nostalgic about an era I didn't live through in a country I don't live in for a war I didn't fight. Simply moving.
don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened...
this fits well here because france has now its place in europe
Why crying? We got a better empire in 1870. IIIrd french republic was bigger.
Brings me to tears, 十美！
France is a nation that does not deserve the modern representation that we westerners and English speakers gave it. The French have and will always be the most patriotic people in the world, and today if Napoleon were to come back from the dead. All of France would shout, "Vive l'empereur!" And that cry would be heard and chanted across the world. Vive la France.
The most beautiful language in the world, and it’s not even close. 🇫🇷
this song is so relaxing , peaceful and beautiful . i love that song so much.
Oh France, you still on my heart.
I feel nothing but RESPECT..
🇬🇪 🫡
Its normal you are not french 🤝
@@Rodolphe-ds1beAs a Dane, the song hits at home. This war was arguably the nail in the coffin for us as a power. We were one of the only loyal French allies during the war (wrongfully shown in the video as controlled by France), and I can only dream of what could have been, had events turned out differently. All respects to the French people.
@@bjek343 Vive le Danemark, je vous aime amis Danois ❤ 🇨🇵🤝🇩🇰
C'Est seulement grâce à Napoléon si l'Italie existe merci les français pour avoir nous donné nôtre pays vive la France éternelle vive l'empereur🇮🇹❤️🇫🇷
Napoléon is Both Italian and French in my Eyes, Corsican.🇮🇹🇫🇷
Same thing with Poland 🇵🇱
C'est grace à Napoléon III (non Napoléon Bonaparte) suite à la guerre de Crimée
@@riendecacheriendesecret4202 ca reste un Bonaparte🤣 Et puis avec ses conquêtes, Napoléon s'imposait peu à peu comle l'unificateur de la péninsule, la preuve, il a été couronné roi d'Italie
Наполеон Бонапарт - величайший правитель всех времён!
In many ways it is a sweet song, nostalgic like all that is sweet in life. From a very young age I was taught to admire and love french history. I respectfully bow to the memory of the soldiers who defended the glory of France throughout Europe. Long live the France of always.
Vive l'France et l'Empereur
defend? its not like napoleon conquered all of europe like hitler lol
You should check on who declared wars. Napoléon conquered Europe because he had to do it for France and yes, he had ambition. Never Napoléon promoted genocide or this kind of stuff like Austrian. He brought the civil code and was the kind of man who was writting a mathematics treatise while crossing the Alps to beat the Austrians who declared war on France (not the other way around) at 27. There is no comparison between this genius and a hyper socialist delusionnal painter who went full auto when the school of art rejected him and when his country lost ww1.
Yes, I am agréé with you, tout à fait.
God, I love France
🏴❤️🇫🇷
I love Wales
@@PatoBZH who asked
@@tbuxt3992 my blood
« Kids make fun of France, adults respect it »
"Kids make fun of france"
Thats basically the entire HOI4 community
France deserves it's recognision for taking berlin in 3 weeks because of davout and napoleon, has the most military victories, still has a small part of it's former empire today.
VIVE LA FRANCE!
@@doowee54 What is ur nationality ? Thanks you for recognise that, vive la France Vive toi ❤️
@@labaguette3740 filipino, i am the very few ones that know history.
@@doowee54 Okay, thanks you god bless you, and Napoleon Take berlin in 6 days :) not 3 week
Love France from Russia
🇷🇺❤🇫🇷
You kicked our ass (winter did)
@@hectorvanel2214 And you were able to capture our capital.
Opinion on Putin?
@@EmperorProd stfup nobody cares
@@EmperorProd He's a dictator
Mes amis, si vous saviez combien mon pays vous remercie de toujours aider la cause de l'indépendance de notre pays. Beaucoup d'amour de la Roumanie 🇷🇴❤️🇫🇷
Tout mon respect pour ton si beau pays, j'ai eu le bonheur d'avoir un ami roumain. Votre Histoire aussi a sa part de tristesse et je me souviendrai toujours de la façon dont votre grand peuple s'est débarrassé de Ceauxescu. Merci pour l'amitié dont votre pays a toujours fait preuve envers le mien et je suis fier que certains de nos soldats participent, avec d'autres, à vous aider à garantir votre sécurité au côté de votre armée
@nicolasdubus669 Je suis heureux que nous vous ayons comme alliés. La situation actuelle sur notre continent, en particulier la situation à l'Est, exige que nous collaborions autant que possible pour assurer la sécurité de l'Europe. Vive la France!
@@countydude8654 nous serons fidèles à nos alliés. Vive la Roumanie et vive l'Europe
I felt this… still relevant all these years later.
As a Pole, I thank Napoleon and France for giving us a few years of freedom in those times and a few years of hope to regain our former glory.
We returned the favor by being great allies until the end.
Forever 🇵🇱❤️🇫🇷.
The Poles of Posen should have refused to fight for Prussia against France in 1870 and 1914. They should revolt against Prussian rule and make the King of Prussia weep in his golden palaces.
@kategogy Poles from Poznań fighting on the side of Prussia were forcibly enlisted in the army. Poles were severely persecuted under German rule in the years 1795-1914, and especially in the second half of the 19th century. Read about Drzymała's wagon and the children from Września.
@kategogy Poles rebelled against Prussia many times, read about the Greater Poland Uprising and student strikes, but neither against Prussia nor against Russia, no one ever helped us.
@kategogy In 1914, Poles fought on the side of Germany because it was the Germans who first promised us independence. Remember that Poland's main enemy has always been, is and will be Russia.
In 1914, Russia, a member of the Entente, was our main occupier.
The Entente's victory was not profitable for us at that moment.
@@RakusCK There were many Poles ruled by Prussia in 1870, did they participate in the war of 1870? It breaks my heart to think the Poles fighting for Prussia against the French.
“Our banner over the cradle of the world.”
What an incredible statement.
You got to replace it in the scientific context of this time
As a Mauritian I’m so appreciated of our ancestors’ music. 🇲🇺❤️🇫🇷
Bruh
nigga what
Gloire à la francophonie !
@@CataciousAmogusevic Why ?
@@gnomekanft5785 Oui
Magnifique ! 🇨🇵
I love how every line of this song has a historical meaning.
It literally made me almost crying. I can empathically feel for it on "To the veteran who begged for his bread".
My man was born on the 15th août of 1769
My man learned in France without any friends and being bullied
My man kicked *ss of British in Toulon
My man goes to Italy and defeat Austrian at Arcole
My man goes to Egypt and found the famous Pierre of rosette
My man became 1st consul in 1799
My man goes back to Italy to kick *ss of Austrian
My man crowned himself emperor of the French in 1804
My man defeated the Russia and Austrian at Austerlitz in 1805
My man resisted to 4th coalition
My man abdicated in 1814 but he came back
My man got defeat at Waterloo in 1815 by the British and Prussian
My man got exiled at sainte helena
My man died on the 5th may of 1821
My man come back in paris on the 15th of December of 1840
My man maybe died but he is still in the heart of french history and mine..
My man is a hero who will never be forgotten and what he did too
Vive l'empereur vive la France
🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️🟥🟥🟥🟥
🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️🟥🟥🟥🟥
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Vive l'Empereur Vive la France and the Veterans of the Napoleonic wars
🇪🇸🤝🇫🇷
@@PwwokwnWI 🇪🇸❤️🇫🇷
@@bonapartienne Did you copy past your reply, also make videos, nice playlist
@@PwwokwnWIHORATIO NELSON🇬🇧
"The ideas that underpin our modern world-meritocracy, equality before the law, property rights, religious toleration, modern secular education, sound finances, and so on-were championed, consolidated, codified and geographically extended by Napoleon. To them he added a rational and efficient local administration, an end to rural banditry, the encouragement of science and the arts, the abolition of feudalism and the greatest codification of laws since the fall of the Roman Empire.
" -Andrew Roberts, British historian.
Vive l'empereur et la gloire éternelle qu'il donna à la France
Vivent les Rois légitimes qui ont aimé et bâti la France depuis Clovis, mais vive l’Empereur quand même, grand homme de l’Histoire qui marqua la France, l’Europe et le monde pour toujours. (Et vive même son malheureux neveu, Napoléon III, qui a lui aussi fait de grandes choses pour la France, malgré sa fin indigne.)
En tant que Légitimiste, je soutiens évidemment le droit héréditaire de Monseigneur Louis XX, mais à choisir, je préfère infiniment la sincérité, la bravoure et la méritocratie d’un Bonapartiste aux magouilles affairistes, maçonniques et parricides d’un Orléaniste. (Et ne parlons même pas des Républicains, qui ont passé deux siècles et demi à traîner notre drapeau, notre patrie, notre peuple dans la boue de la disgrâce, la défaite, la banqueroute, la transformation culturelle forcée, l’insécurité galopante, etc. Par leur faute, par leur corruption morale et financière, nous sommes devenus la risée de l’Europe et du monde…)
Vivement le retour du Roy - ou même de l’Empereur - pour sortir la France de son sommeil et de lui rappeler le glorieux destin qui lui est promis par Dieu et la Vierge !
@@wopfrog007 Bien dit. Vive la France ! À bas la République !
@@BlackHawk2b vive la République
@@first-french-empire En tout cas pas de cette république actuelle.
A ba la religion (d'avant la révolution) chrétienne qui c'est faite instrumentalisée par des rois corrompus et avides de pouvoirs ! @@wopfrog007
Gloire, honneur et fidélité à la France
"Old soldiers never die, they just fade away"
I prefer this one :
"Old soldiers never die, they enter in the legends"
Que Dieu me prenne la vie et le donne a la France si il le faut. Y’a t’il plus grand honneur de donner ca vie pour ce merveilleux pays.🇫🇷
Oh france such amazing history
🇺🇸❤🇫🇷
@Blanquette De Veau As american i can confirm Louisiana is french
@@TheHouseAIwaysWinsThen give it to us back. It strecth over Mid West to Quebec btw.
@@9kk99k9k we bought that land fair from the French, it’ll be worth billions if the French government would want to buy it back
I'd just like to point out as a french that you may see we talk about the brave of italy of iberia, a privilege not given to other nations. Fratelli latini, hermanos latinos, frères latins
True.
🇮🇹❤🇫🇷❤🇪🇸
Bien dit et si un pays a largement participé à la chute de l'Empire c'est bien l'Espagne qui nous a fait vivre l'enfer. Un François est capable d'admirer ses ennemis quand ils se battent pour de bonnes raisons. C'est pourquoi nous ne parlerons pas des Anglais
A wonderful song … perfect to the world to respect it . From India to France 🇫🇷 ❤❤
None of us fought during the Napoleonic Wars but this gives me nostalgia
Beautiful song
Greetings from Hungary
"Theres nothing we can do."
My man has been in the land of pharous
My man made the italian peninsula his own
My man made the spaniards knee in front of him
My man walked his horse through the gates of Brandenburg
My man made Europe his own
My man froze in Russia
My man saw his dream collapse
My man left a nation in mourning
May my man he rest in peace
my man was inspired by my comment to create his own comment
@@davidayos6702 lol
This song feel like the end of a journey. The ending credits of the Napoleonic Wars.
0:01 - Post-Hundred Days and Occupation of France, 1817~
0:47 - Italian Campaign, 1796-1797
0:54 - Egypt and Syrian Campaign, 1798-1801
1:29 - Italian Campaign, 1792-1801 or 1805-1806
1:39 - Peninsular War, 1807/1808-1814
1:44 - Jena-Auestedt or Eylau and Fourth Coalition, 1806-1807
1:51 - "Four Days Campaign", 1809
2:10 - Invasion of Russia, 1812
2:52 - French Campaign and Sixth Coalition 1813-1814
3:35 - Post Sixth Coalition - 1814-1815
Respect from Turkiye 🇹🇷🤝🇨🇵
I'm algerian, and though you might expect me to hate France and its history, I actually really like it and respect it, I still hate the colonial stuff but it's been 60 years since that ended, so I think our people should move on at this point
I hope both countries find peace one day
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Il devrait y avoir plus d'algériens comme toi l'ami. Oui la France a merdée sur beaucoup de choses sur la question algérienne, mais c'est du passé
@@abysslheritier2252 Il faut rappelez que les colonies viennent de la repoublique pas de l'Empire
@@ommsterlitz1805 Techniquement l'Empire était toujours Republique. Napoléon avait été nommé par le Parlement (même si il leur a un peu forcé la main) et ce n'était pas lui qui dirigeait directement même si il avait pas mal de pouvoir
Tout au plus une République Impériale
@@abysslheritier2252 C'est bien ce qui a causé sa perte Napoléon III ne voulait pas de guerre en 1870 contrairement aux ldlots de journalistes qui ont aggraver la crise et pousser le peuple et les parlementaires à ce résultat.
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I know Napoleon conquered almost all of Europe and people hate him for the type of ideology and his power, but in reality he really did good for the French nation. He brought his people back and freed them. Now that the veterans of the war died, he rested in his bed. One last salute before he died at the age of 53. This dude respected before he died. He brightened all of France.
i personnaly prefer Napoléon III
The background chorus sounds like some ambient track to Baldur's Gate or Planescape Torment, an old RPG like that, cool chant. And awesome somber lyrics
@@luansilvail so true oomfie!
@@luansilvail god I didn’t realize Putin is better at propaganda then I was
@@luansilvail 🇷🇺🐽
@@luansilvail + 15 rubles 👍🇷🇺🐽
Француз тілі әдемі, 🇰🇿❤️🇨🇵
I wasn't expecting it to have such a familiar tune
What is the melody from?
@@luansilvail yah but just because a country did something "bad" doesn't justify sentencing it to months of war and suffering.
Is it the tune from Ich bin Soldat? link: ua-cam.com/video/ZWClFjsaseE/v-deo.html
@@luansilvail do you even look at the comment?
@@luansilvail
So
-1: how does that justify an illegal invasion and killing civilians (because i suppose you are one of those failures of a human being who support putin)
-2: ever bothered thinking about why the ukrainians did that? Well bacause stalin was just as bad as the germans and espacially towards ukrainians, making it normal to think the germans would be better (no one knew about the massacres yet)
-3:after seeing the horrible things the germans did many ukrainians started resisting
-4: there were also russian collaborators in ww2 like andrey vlasov and his soldiers
-5: as you seem to really despise n*zis (and that is good) and think ukrainians should have resisted more then you should be happy for them fighting against a dictatorship spreading propaganda, being revisionist, expantionist and killing civilians
Thanks, this song was very not popular, i discover it only a few month ago.
But this is beautiful. And sad....
@@luansilvail Do you know that Napoleonic wars was a succession of French Victory against more powerful contries ?
We are the country that win the most war of all history of humanity so your sentence is totaly stupid. By the way, even if the Empire didn't survive, The Revolutionnary Ideals survived, and that was the real thing that European Monarch where fighting. Thats why Napoleonics wars are a victory : Today, most of Europe is a Democratia, and that was the point of Napoleonics wars.
Sorry it was really incorrect yesterday, now it must be good
This heartbreakingly beautiful song captures the Eternal Glory of France 🇫🇷 and the Emperor of the French! Vive La France 🇫🇷!
the greatest music for the greatest ruler of all time
rest in piece
There’s also a Polish song to this melody - it has various titles: „Pułk czwarty”, „Tysiąc walecznych”, „Walecznych tysiąc opuszcza Warszawę”, „Ostatnich dziesięciu z czwartego regimentu” - all about the 4th Regiment fighting the Russian Empire as a part of November Uprising. There’s also another song - „Śpiew rotmistrza” or „Czyli pamiętasz?”, about Kościuszko’s insurgency and Napoleonic wars.
I finally get where the melody of the song "Ich bin Soldat" comes from
For nearly two years I sang this to my daughter to put her to sleep. This and "La Strasbourgeoise" were the only songs that would have her fall asleep 🙏🏻
Tell her that as long as she'll breath some brave French will be ready to stand against anyone who'll try to steal her freedom to be who she wants to be even if they have no chance to win
Even tho i have no french ancestry, dna or germany dna for that matter, i felt something in my heart, like the fall of napoleon changed the course of my future somehow and this song hit me right in the heart, i love you napoleon ❤
Красивая песня)
спасибо 🇫🇷❤🇷🇺
Damn, makes me feel sad and patriotic even though I have no ties to Fance whatsoever
You are not only one...
Imaginez ces soldats. La plupart étaient des paysans opprimés pendant des siècles qui, soudainement, sont devenus le conquereurs du monde grâce à son Empereur. Napoléon était l'âme du monde, comme a dit Hegel.
Merci à la promotion "Général Eblé" de l'École Militaire Interarmes (promotion 2020-2022) pour cette belle interprétation.
I am so nostalgic thank you for the emotion you give me i am criying actually 😢
This gives me good feelings of nostalgia of something which I never lived. Like an elder telling me about when he was young.
The map of Napoleon Europe is so Beautiful
It was that beautiful...once. I hope it will be again one day
@@abysslheritier2252no
This song is really beautiful and peaceful❤❤ It makes me calm and relaxed ❤❤Thank you, French people❤🇨🇵