'Partant pour la Syrie | Leaving for Syria' Unofficial National Anthem of Second French Empire

"Partant pour la Syrie" (French pronunciation: ​[paʁtɑ̃ puʁ la siʁi]; English: Leaving for Syria) is a French patriotic song, the music of which was written by Hortense de Beauharnais and the text by Alexandre de Laborde, in or about 1807.

Partant pour la Syrie was the unofficial national anthem during the Second Empire, an era when La Marseillaise was regarded with suspicion. After the collapse of the Second Empire, the song was played to the Emperor Napoleon III as he departed from Schloss Wilhelmshöhe to his exile in England in 1871, but by the time of Empress Eugénie's funeral in 1920, the band did not know it and played La Marseillaise instead