Unofficial Anthem of Vichy France: 'Maréchal nous voilà!' (Marshal, Here We Are!)

What a great anthem for a not so great puppet

[udith]

Vichy France existed for only 3 years
This video got recommended after 3 years
What does it mean?
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[korkorkorkorkor]

for a nation that only existed for like
3 years or something
they got a kickass anthem

[ernestorivas]

"You either die as a hero or live enough to become the villain" Petain, probably

[roje]

Everyone keep cool until you pause the video but you still hear the athem outside

[gatearrow]

Oh ! I live in Vichy, it's fun to see my town hall in the background !
A beautiful city with a dark period, but not only that : Napoleon III has come multiple times for thermal baths !

[obi-wankenobi]

Hey FBI agent, I can explain, it’s just a cool song

[striker]

me and the French boys about to watch this via VPN be like:

[thedankr]

I made it in Latin (and it rhymes):

Una flamma sacra
Tollit solum natalem e
Et Francia inebriata
Te salutat, Praefecte!
Omnes qui te amant infantes tui
Venerantur tuos annos et
Tuo appellationi supremi
"Praesens!" responderunt!

Praefecte, ecce sumus!
Ante te, salvator Franciae
Iuramus, nos, tui pueri
Servare tuos gradus et sequi
Praefecte, ecce sumus!
Nos redonavisti spem
Patria renascetur!
Praefecte, Praefecte, ecce sumus!

Quando vox iterat nobis tua
Ut iungere nos:
“Franci tollite tua capita,
Ad futura videamus!”
Nos, librantes aulaeum
Vexilli immortalis,
In aureo tuarum stellarum,
Videmus caelum nitens!

Praefecte, ecce sumus!
Ante te, salvator Franciae
Iuramus, nos, tui pueri
Servare tuos gradus et sequi
Praefecte, ecce sumus!
Nos redonavisti spem
Patria renascetur!
Praefecte, Praefecte, ecce sumus!

Praefecte, ecce sumus!
Ante te, salvator Franciae
Iuramus, nos, tui pueri
Servare tuos gradus et sequi
Praefecte, ecce sumus!
Nos redonavisti spem
Patria renascetur!
Praefecte, Praefecte, ecce sumus!

[ohnibboi]

When you somehow manage beat Burgundy as France:

[johnhammond]

When I was in Geography class my teacher asked us if we wanted her to play any music from around the world while we did our work. Guess what I asked her to play. So we basically did our work listening to a Fascist anthem. I told her it was a French resistance song, she believed me.

[Sana_a]

"Who taught you that?"
"My grandfather, "
"...A little old-fashioned."

[antoniomariamacri]

When The anthem is entirely based on praising The Head of The state You know You are talking of a democracy.

[mikeetzwiler]

Amazing rendition. The FBIV version has become the most popular one, and while it's good, this one is better in my opinion. Big ups for visuals too.

[libzbond]

*THIS VIDEO HAS BEEN BLOCKED IN FRANCE* ('Tis a joke friends)

[thewhitestmaterial]

I legit accidentally sang this in france and i got kicked from mcdonalds.

[PapiEddieIII]

This is my dream in 1914 but it happened in 1941 so flip

[LetsGoGetThem]

Fun fact, these are things introduced in Vichy that are now part of France leading to jokes Vichy "shaped modern France in some ways":

The Duty to rescue Law (imposed by the Germans to force the French to rescue German soldiers!)
The minimum wage
The “Medical College” (Ordre des Médecins)
The Ordre des Architectes
The meal vouchers, when your workplaces pays you the restaurant for lunch
The title of PDG in corporations (président-directeur général)
Fixed prices on restaurants’ menues
Having a supplemental administrative system with regions, a disguised way to recreate the ancient provinces
Mineral water, to fight against alcoolism
The presence of handball in France (that was imposed by the Germans)
The famous périphérique encircling Paris. The first plans were designed by Vichy.
The pictographic No Entry road sign. Previously it was text (sens interdit), but the Germans would not understand, so it was changed for a pictogram.
The accounting system, that originated from Göring that wanted to uniformize accounting in Europe.
The prohibition to smoke in certain public places.
15 players for rugby (rugby union) instead of 13 (rugby league) because the latter was considered “too English”.
The Urbanism Code.
and so on, and so on. There is a book with an hundred of such examples.

[lejokeroujacknapier]

Ppls still deny the fact that during this period all the coutry loved petain

Yes I'm French and I know what I'm saying

[kcobra]

When you consider vichy as the capital of France instead of Paris:

[tomasestrada]

I live in Marseille, which was in Vichy France at the time, and our history teacher actually played this in class, so I was surprised to see Ingen made a “cover” of it (idk if it’s a cover, it just always sounds better when it’s from Ingen)