"Te Souviens-tu?" - French Post-Napoleonic Soldier Song

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  • @rollolol6053
    @rollolol6053 ปีที่แล้ว +2641

    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.

    • @mojewjewjew4420
      @mojewjewjew4420 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      When was this?

    • @radhitya0187
      @radhitya0187 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@mojewjewjew4420 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retour_des_cendres

    • @selimgokalp2805
      @selimgokalp2805 ปีที่แล้ว +156

      @@mojewjewjew4420 1841

    • @wertyuiopasd6281
      @wertyuiopasd6281 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Yes.

    • @MkVainilla
      @MkVainilla ปีที่แล้ว +152

      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

  • @labaguette3740
    @labaguette3740 ปีที่แล้ว +2909

    « Kids make fun of France, adults respect it »

    • @doowee54
      @doowee54 ปีที่แล้ว +409

      "Kids make fun of france"
      Thats basically the entire HOI4 community

    • @doowee54
      @doowee54 ปีที่แล้ว +321

      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!

    • @labaguette3740
      @labaguette3740 ปีที่แล้ว +132

      @@doowee54 What is ur nationality ? Thanks you for recognise that, vive la France Vive toi ❤️

    • @doowee54
      @doowee54 ปีที่แล้ว +137

      @@labaguette3740 filipino, i am the very few ones that know history.

    • @labaguette3740
      @labaguette3740 ปีที่แล้ว +93

      @@doowee54 Okay, thanks you god bless you, and Napoleon Take berlin in 6 days :) not 3 week

  • @gentlemanfarmer5738
    @gentlemanfarmer5738 ปีที่แล้ว +1965

    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.

    • @mrworldwide7387
      @mrworldwide7387 ปีที่แล้ว +138

      @@Colbykanter I used to deny the rumors of Russian bots. And then I saw you

    • @typiclyjohny5114
      @typiclyjohny5114 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Colbykanter So what? Should we just watch Russia enslave an independent nation?

    • @thatoneyankee1846
      @thatoneyankee1846 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      @@Colbykanter What in the holy mother of Russian bots.

    • @nicocola284
      @nicocola284 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Austria was mightier than Prussia at that time. And you can also mention Spain (but why the holy land ?)

    • @ieajackson5518
      @ieajackson5518 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Colbykanter “special military operation” who are you kidding, it’s an invasion plain and simple.

  • @lord_kuech8563
    @lord_kuech8563 ปีที่แล้ว +918

    "Do you remember that on the pyramids, each of us dared to engrave his name"
    Damn this line hit hard in my French heart

    • @Cheirador123
      @Cheirador123 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      I'm Brazilian and for some reason that hit me hard too

    • @spvrivs
      @spvrivs ปีที่แล้ว +57

      It's sad that now rather the Maghrebians could dare to less a grafitti on the St-Denis cathedral 😢

    • @marcstudio7772
      @marcstudio7772 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      C'est tellement nostalgique...

    • @leradispasencoreirradie2654
      @leradispasencoreirradie2654 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      @@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

    • @kleinbaba3607
      @kleinbaba3607 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@leradispasencoreirradie2654 tes un frère toi 👏

  • @Kodak_Blyat666
    @Kodak_Blyat666 ปีที่แล้ว +1735

    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)

    • @bigchungus1920
      @bigchungus1920 ปีที่แล้ว +146

      It’s extremely clear, your English is excellent

    • @DubABattery
      @DubABattery ปีที่แล้ว +65

      No problem. You speak English so well I would've thought you an English speaker

    • @nibulsheep8214
      @nibulsheep8214 ปีที่แล้ว

      The King Hated the empire and all who stood for it, including the veterans

    • @BIG-BBC
      @BIG-BBC ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Your English is fine other than a few gramical errors

    • @aggelos.k.7
      @aggelos.k.7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      My friend your English are very good I don't see anything unclear

  • @cheezymeteor101
    @cheezymeteor101 ปีที่แล้ว +817

    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

    • @galatheumbreon6862
      @galatheumbreon6862 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      I really like that detail

    • @matouskulhanek3320
      @matouskulhanek3320 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@Colbykanter 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
      @GabagoolEnjoyer863 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      ​@@matouskulhanek3320 America being described as "democratic" is the funniest thing I've heard in a while

    • @matouskulhanek3320
      @matouskulhanek3320 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@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.

    • @GabagoolEnjoyer863
      @GabagoolEnjoyer863 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@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.

  • @Iberian_XAVO
    @Iberian_XAVO ปีที่แล้ว +2863

    This is such a sad, nostalgic but calming song... I love it.

    • @angrybeardmantm6830
      @angrybeardmantm6830 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      NOSTALGIC? You've got some explaining to do!

    • @malik_hi
      @malik_hi ปีที่แล้ว +47

      @@angrybeardmantm6830 fr my guy acts like he has time traveled.

    • @theplanetmercury7487
      @theplanetmercury7487 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@Colbykanter tankie

    • @Ivan-nu2um
      @Ivan-nu2um ปีที่แล้ว

      @@theplanetmercury7487 Fuck tankie

    • @bliecoug1029
      @bliecoug1029 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Colbykanter 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

  • @glockymenor6760
    @glockymenor6760 ปีที่แล้ว +159

    Love From Lebanon. Vive la France ! 🇫🇷❤️🇱🇧

    • @cathonatio8100
      @cathonatio8100 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Merci ❤

    • @boutikadrezius7564
      @boutikadrezius7564 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      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

    • @ardugaleen2231
      @ardugaleen2231 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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 ❤

  • @nade8721
    @nade8721 ปีที่แล้ว +2368

    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.

    • @exmeasententia6953
      @exmeasententia6953 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      It also inpired "Paris pour un beafsteak" (a song for the Paris Commune)

    • @tototomato1748
      @tototomato1748 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      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.

    • @lightwinggrtheone1185
      @lightwinggrtheone1185 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      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

    • @avocadogaming5908
      @avocadogaming5908 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      actually original comes from Poland "Walecznych Tysiąc" written in 1832 by Julius Mosen a german poet

    • @nade8721
      @nade8721 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      ​@@avocadogaming5908 "Te Souviens Tu" was composed in 1817

  • @rrows5803
    @rrows5803 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +106

    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 !

    • @user-bx1mf3zb8y
      @user-bx1mf3zb8y 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      The best thing is the first one like France is completely in mess an say fuck you all ! Valmy battle is crazy !

    • @nicolasdubus669
      @nicolasdubus669 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Mocking us is their way to avoid to fear us

    • @Jim-li7xb
      @Jim-li7xb 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@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.

    • @nicolasdubus669
      @nicolasdubus669 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@Jim-li7xb who can win today in front of so many nations with modern weapons ? What's the point ?

    • @Jim-li7xb
      @Jim-li7xb 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@nicolasdubus669 my point is, like so many other European nations, France’s glory days are over.

  • @galatheumbreon6862
    @galatheumbreon6862 ปีที่แล้ว +398

    I really love how the tune is the same as to the german anti-war song "ich bin soldat"

    • @stadtrepublikmulhausen4121
      @stadtrepublikmulhausen4121 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      and it's the same as " Paris pour un bifteck". A song which parody pacifism.

    • @doolittle555
      @doolittle555 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      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
      @doolittle555 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@WillySalami yes I know, and it’s very surprising to see it reused nowadays.

    • @MelerionTheFirst
      @MelerionTheFirst ปีที่แล้ว +30

      "Ich bin soldat" come from "te souviens tu".

    • @parodyclip36
      @parodyclip36 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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

  • @bigmetalman4257
    @bigmetalman4257 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +173

    As an American thank you France for helping us achieve freedom and I respect napoleons and all your people

    • @nicolasdubus669
      @nicolasdubus669 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Thank you citizen

    • @historyforlife1019
      @historyforlife1019 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      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.

    • @nicolasdubus669
      @nicolasdubus669 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@historyforlife1019 France was never afraid to be a paradox so was his Emperor

    • @maxidecimus1527
      @maxidecimus1527 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      As a French, thank you USA for helping us achieve freedom in 1941-1945. God bless America et Vive la France

    • @danieltobin4498
      @danieltobin4498 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      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.

  • @thebrazilianhistorian6530
    @thebrazilianhistorian6530 ปีที่แล้ว +590

    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".

    • @alpaytemur6730
      @alpaytemur6730 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      In which piece of art does this text exists?

    • @thebrazilianhistorian6530
      @thebrazilianhistorian6530 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      @@alpaytemur6730 i wrote it meself, the text.

    • @alpaytemur6730
      @alpaytemur6730 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@thebrazilianhistorian6530 well written mate

    • @barnabe4891
      @barnabe4891 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@thebrazilianhistorian6530 muita criatividade e tempo livre

    • @wertyuiopasd6281
      @wertyuiopasd6281 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Vive la France surtout

  • @knightsolaire6342
    @knightsolaire6342 ปีที่แล้ว +692

    It's so sad yet soothing in a way, I absolutely love it!
    Much love, my French brethren, from little Belgium!

    • @hectorvanel2214
      @hectorvanel2214 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      J'étais à Waterloo il y a deux semaines. Magnifique site !

    • @abysslemorne4904
      @abysslemorne4904 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      🇫🇷❤

    • @Lorddonen
      @Lorddonen ปีที่แล้ว +13

      God bless Belgium🇧🇪, from Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

    • @nade8721
      @nade8721 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      There is also a Belgian version of this song in Walloon language : "Li Pantalon trawé"

    • @GalacticExplorer83
      @GalacticExplorer83 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Lorddonen god bless cymru from USA

  • @tatogoginava4161
    @tatogoginava4161 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

    I feel nothing but RESPECT..
    🇬🇪 🫡

    • @Rodolphe-ds1be
      @Rodolphe-ds1be 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Its normal you are not french 🤝

  • @kichka8777
    @kichka8777 ปีที่แล้ว +651

    The French have amazing songs, just like the language :)

    • @lapotreducruciforme2685
      @lapotreducruciforme2685 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      @@Colbykanter ???
      WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT UKRAINE YOU CRAZY !

    • @gabriellebel1870
      @gabriellebel1870 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Tu as raison le français est une belle langue 🙏 l’ukrainien aussi j’aime bien cette langue 🇨🇦🙏🇺🇦

    • @patrioteetfiere9076
      @patrioteetfiere9076 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@gabriellebel1870 🇨🇵

    • @dElChapuliun
      @dElChapuliun ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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

    • @swedish-monarchist2457
      @swedish-monarchist2457 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Colbykanter The national interest of the west is the destruction of the russian idea, much like Prussia was destroyed post ww2

  • @lorenzod3667
    @lorenzod3667 ปีที่แล้ว +204

    Love for France from Italy 🇮🇹❤️🇨🇵
    Vive l'Empereur!

    • @wopfrog007
      @wopfrog007 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      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
      @lorenzod3667 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@wopfrog007 Assolutamente, viva i fratelli delle Alpi !

    • @maskr5520
      @maskr5520 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@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

    • @kal_bewe1837
      @kal_bewe1837 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Love Italy from France 🇨🇵🥰🇮🇹

    • @poplo7680
      @poplo7680 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@wopfrog007 ma il una faccia, una razza e fra greci e italiani,

  • @SuperThompson63
    @SuperThompson63 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +74

    " Te souviens tu que sur les pyramides, chacun de nous osa graver son nom"
    Les larmes aux yeux. Vive la France éternelle

  • @legrognarddelempereur5724
    @legrognarddelempereur5724 ปีที่แล้ว +323

    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!

    • @boutikadrezius7564
      @boutikadrezius7564 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Vive les grognards

    • @ElPolloLoco7689
      @ElPolloLoco7689 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Vive notre France !

    • @Jaguar1910
      @Jaguar1910 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

    • @legrognarddelempereur5724
      @legrognarddelempereur5724 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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🤣

    • @conkhi1nghenhac826
      @conkhi1nghenhac826 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      20 ans d'une vie.

  • @UltimeTheNormand
    @UltimeTheNormand ปีที่แล้ว +221

    Love France from France 🇨🇵❤🇨🇵

    • @old_mapper
      @old_mapper ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hi

    • @UltimeTheNormand
      @UltimeTheNormand ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@old_mapper Hello there

    • @theeternal2734
      @theeternal2734 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Colbykanter Russians Collaborated With The Nazis Too You Commie Sympathizer

    • @RobuxJuice
      @RobuxJuice ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@Colbykanter This must be the weirdest time to get political

    • @UltimeTheNormand
      @UltimeTheNormand ปีที่แล้ว

      @@RobuxJuice True

  • @AvEnth1
    @AvEnth1 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +58

    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..

    • @ok-up4qx
      @ok-up4qx 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      pretty sure the 1815 is actually 1814

    • @HochundDeutschyapster
      @HochundDeutschyapster 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      2:52 - First French Empire, 1814 Sixth coalition. French campaign.
      3:35 - Kingdom of France, 1814 Aftermath of the Sixth coalition.

  • @francescomonchiero3026
    @francescomonchiero3026 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    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!

    • @AlexC-ou4ju
      @AlexC-ou4ju 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      we also remember the light of Rome.

    • @NoName-hg6cc
      @NoName-hg6cc หลายเดือนก่อน

      We remember we didn't want French here in Italy
      🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹

  • @yankee3875
    @yankee3875 ปีที่แล้ว +357

    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

    • @BlackHawk2b
      @BlackHawk2b ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Merci, brother

    • @BlackHawk2b
      @BlackHawk2b ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@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

    • @Danipiz666
      @Danipiz666 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@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♥️ 🇲🇫

    • @doolittle555
      @doolittle555 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@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.

    • @doolittle555
      @doolittle555 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@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.

  • @giraffeman326
    @giraffeman326 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    If the Napoleonic Wars had a credits song this would be it

  • @PskovCybercat
    @PskovCybercat ปีที่แล้ว +116

    Love France from Russia
    🇷🇺❤🇫🇷

    • @hectorvanel2214
      @hectorvanel2214 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      You kicked our ass (winter did)

    • @PskovCybercat
      @PskovCybercat ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@hectorvanel2214 And you were able to capture our capital.

    • @Empire.
      @Empire. ปีที่แล้ว

      Opinion on Putin?

    • @randomdiscordmeme
      @randomdiscordmeme ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Empire. stfup nobody cares

    • @PskovCybercat
      @PskovCybercat ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@Empire. He's a dictator

  • @hello-rq8kf
    @hello-rq8kf ปีที่แล้ว +68

    don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened...

    • @justacat2
      @justacat2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      this fits well here because france has now its place in europe

    • @9kk99k9k
      @9kk99k9k 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Why crying? We got a better empire in 1870. IIIrd french republic was bigger.

  • @countydude8654
    @countydude8654 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +68

    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 🇷🇴❤️🇫🇷

  • @abhijeetingle2707
    @abhijeetingle2707 ปีที่แล้ว +378

    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.

    • @ahwabanmukherjee5065
      @ahwabanmukherjee5065 ปีที่แล้ว

      Maharashtra?

    • @AgentK-im8ke
      @AgentK-im8ke ปีที่แล้ว +4

      he should have stop after Austerlitz, Europe could still be ours

    • @lyrisio
      @lyrisio ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@AgentK-im8ke ah well, napoleon is an ambitious fellow

    • @AgentK-im8ke
      @AgentK-im8ke ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@lyrisio too much unfortunately

    • @lyrisio
      @lyrisio ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@AgentK-im8ke indeed.

  • @valentinverot7393
    @valentinverot7393 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    ENFIN ! Ça faisait longtemps que je l'attendais.
    Quand j'écoute cette musique j'en pleure de l'eau bénite !

  • @Cheirador123
    @Cheirador123 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    I really like that the different voices had a verse of their own, like they were other soldiers with distinct memories.

  • @Kevin63GachaandGMOD
    @Kevin63GachaandGMOD ปีที่แล้ว +225

    Je ne connaissais pas cette chanson et je suis content de l'avoir découverte.

    • @Legoslavzed-1618-
      @Legoslavzed-1618- ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I am happy for discovery of this song and sad for story that this song holds...

    • @Kevin63GachaandGMOD
      @Kevin63GachaandGMOD ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Legoslavzed-1618- Me too.

    • @Legoslavzed-1618-
      @Legoslavzed-1618- ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Kevin63GachaandGMOD How bad you must be to put veteran on streets just with right to beg for some coins and moldy bread...

    • @Kevin63GachaandGMOD
      @Kevin63GachaandGMOD ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Legoslavzed-1618- It's sad, but sometimes it's hard to find a job.

    • @Legoslavzed-1618-
      @Legoslavzed-1618- ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Kevin63GachaandGMOD in france was beging illegal but tsar made it legal as a punishment for enemy...

  • @mongolempire4267
    @mongolempire4267 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Napoleon was alive when this music was written, but he was exiled in the isolated island of "Saint Helena" .

  • @malocuillandre1344
    @malocuillandre1344 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    "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

    • @ommsterlitz1805
      @ommsterlitz1805 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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.

    • @malocuillandre1344
      @malocuillandre1344 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ommsterlitz1805 comment ça « il serait intelligent d'ouvrir un livre d'histoire » ? Tu crois que je ne m'y connais pas ?

    • @ommsterlitz1805
      @ommsterlitz1805 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@malocuillandre1344 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.

    • @malocuillandre1344
      @malocuillandre1344 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@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.

  • @darkfrench8953
    @darkfrench8953 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    Le grand Napoléon qui a conquis et dominer l'Europe.Vive l'empereur !Vive l'empire !Vive la France !

  • @Auxblanchesmains
    @Auxblanchesmains ปีที่แล้ว +443

    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🇮🇹❤️🇫🇷

    • @AlxzAlec
      @AlxzAlec ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Napoléon is Both Italian and French in my Eyes, Corsican.🇮🇹🇫🇷

    • @chibani-
      @chibani- ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Same thing with Poland 🇵🇱

    • @riendecacheriendesecret4202
      @riendecacheriendesecret4202 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      C'est grace à Napoléon III (non Napoléon Bonaparte) suite à la guerre de Crimée

    • @mostab7564
      @mostab7564 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@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

    • @timoserb1984
      @timoserb1984 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Наполеон Бонапарт - величайший правитель всех времён!

  • @hectorvanel2214
    @hectorvanel2214 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    Vive l'empereur et la gloire éternelle qu'il donna à la France

    • @wopfrog007
      @wopfrog007 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      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 !

    • @BlackHawk2b
      @BlackHawk2b ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ​@@wopfrog007 Bien dit. Vive la France ! À bas la République !

    • @first-french-empire
      @first-french-empire ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@BlackHawk2b vive la République

    • @apprentimermoud5162
      @apprentimermoud5162 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@first-french-empire En tout cas pas de cette république actuelle.

    • @mrc5256
      @mrc5256 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      A ba la religion (d'avant la révolution) chrétienne qui c'est faite instrumentalisée par des rois corrompus et avides de pouvoirs ! @@wopfrog007

  • @AmericanFire
    @AmericanFire ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Oh france such amazing history
    🇺🇸❤🇫🇷

    • @FREEJERVSALEM
      @FREEJERVSALEM ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Blanquette De Veau As american i can confirm Louisiana is french

    • @9kk99k9k
      @9kk99k9k 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@FREEJERVSALEMThen give it to us back. It strecth over Mid West to Quebec btw.

    • @FREEJERVSALEM
      @FREEJERVSALEM 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@9kk99k9k we bought that land fair from the French, it’ll be worth billions if the French government would want to buy it back

  • @Lorddonen
    @Lorddonen ปีที่แล้ว +60

    God, I love France
    🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❤️🇫🇷

    • @PatoBZH
      @PatoBZH ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I love Wales

    • @tbuxt3992
      @tbuxt3992 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@PatoBZH who asked

    • @PatoBZH
      @PatoBZH ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@tbuxt3992 my blood

  • @davidayos6702
    @davidayos6702 ปีที่แล้ว +525

    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

    • @connorwilliams7607
      @connorwilliams7607 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      My man cemented America's manifest destiny

    • @Legoslavzed-1618-
      @Legoslavzed-1618- ปีที่แล้ว +22

      My man has been defeated next to glorios pyramids.

    • @boneybrony5009
      @boneybrony5009 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      My man made a march about onions

    • @yukilin3386
      @yukilin3386 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      My man baked bread

    • @theonewhocares2807
      @theonewhocares2807 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      My man is an average height for that time.

  • @jimmyplaysgames342
    @jimmyplaysgames342 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    "Theres nothing we can do."

  • @ScholasticaMaan
    @ScholasticaMaan ปีที่แล้ว +95

    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,

    • @lesbergersdarcadie634
      @lesbergersdarcadie634 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      merci d'avoir mis en ligne ce texte universel

    • @nicolasdubus669
      @nicolasdubus669 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Vive la Nation ! Vive l'Empereur !

  • @bonapartienne
    @bonapartienne ปีที่แล้ว +98

    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
    🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️🟥🟥🟥🟥
    🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️🟥🟥🟥🟥
    🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️🟥🟥🟥🟥
    🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️🟥🟥🟥🟥
    🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️🟥🟥🟥🟥
    🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️🟥🟥🟥🟥
    🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️🟥🟥🟥🟥
    🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️🟥🟥🟥🟥

    • @elijahtidswell8457
      @elijahtidswell8457 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Vive l'Empereur Vive la France and the Veterans of the Napoleonic wars

    • @ElNicaChango
      @ElNicaChango ปีที่แล้ว +3

      🇪🇸🤝🇫🇷

    • @bonapartienne
      @bonapartienne ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@ElNicaChango 🇪🇸❤️🇫🇷

    • @FREEJERVSALEM
      @FREEJERVSALEM ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bonapartienne Did you copy past your reply, also make videos, nice playlist

    • @cheeseknife3593
      @cheeseknife3593 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@ElNicaChangoHORATIO NELSON🇬🇧

  • @LaTvrcaBovnapartiste
    @LaTvrcaBovnapartiste ปีที่แล้ว +112

    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!!!

    • @AlxzAlec
      @AlxzAlec ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I’m still waiting for Napoléon Bonaparte to come back, I need him.😩

    • @Legoslavzed-1618-
      @Legoslavzed-1618- ปีที่แล้ว +4

      How horryblle you must be to put old war veteran on streets and let him to beg for money and food?...

    • @TNOfan4093
      @TNOfan4093 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Legoslavzed-1618- Joys of monarchy

    • @Elliotknotfound
      @Elliotknotfound ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Legoslavzed-1618- that’s how the British government is

    • @danemon8423
      @danemon8423 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TNOfan4093 didn't louis xiv built the invalides for veterans soldiers

  • @GC_Mars
    @GC_Mars ปีที่แล้ว +24

    The most beautiful language in the world, and it’s not even close. 🇫🇷

  • @Kurdistancountryball
    @Kurdistancountryball ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Oh France, you still on my heart.

  • @Skibir
    @Skibir ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Dont cry because it is over, smile because it happened.

  • @brucculi349
    @brucculi349 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    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.

    • @kayzenl7911
      @kayzenl7911 ปีที่แล้ว

      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

    • @gringologie9302
      @gringologie9302 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      American should look a bit at geography. Pretty easy to understand that France is totally surrounded. Worst place ever to start.

    • @abysslheritier2252
      @abysslheritier2252 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@gringologie9302 and France hold. France exists since 9th century. One of the oldest country in Europe and maybe the world

    • @cathonatio8100
      @cathonatio8100 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@abysslheritier2252 *6th century

    • @abysslheritier2252
      @abysslheritier2252 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@cathonatio8100 i count around Charlemagne. But yeah, technically France exists since Clovis

  • @hasasincz2216
    @hasasincz2216 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    One of my ancestors fought on the side of Napoleon, and i am proud, that he did.

    • @Legoslavzed-1618-
      @Legoslavzed-1618- ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Be proud.
      He did from white terror, from monarchy with no economy glorious and wealthy empire and got defeated because of tsarist betrayl.

    • @kuroyami84
      @kuroyami84 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      i have one, who fought at Wagram

    • @kayzenl7911
      @kayzenl7911 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@kuroyami84 same here, crazy to think that our ancestors fought a battle 200 years ago and now we meet here

  • @AlxzAlec
    @AlxzAlec ปีที่แล้ว +49

    i feel some connection with napoleon because i’m such a big fan of him and what he did, rest in peace L’Empereur

    • @Legoslavzed-1618-
      @Legoslavzed-1618- ปีที่แล้ว +8

      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...

    • @dyflin3246
      @dyflin3246 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Legoslavzed-1618- sure...

    • @ommsterlitz1805
      @ommsterlitz1805 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dyflin3246 I think it comes from a book it's not his own words bro it's a quote

  • @ElonMusk0123
    @ElonMusk0123 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    Respect from Turkiye 🇹🇷🤝🇨🇵

  • @Ilda0511
    @Ilda0511 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    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.🇫🇷

  • @streyk2
    @streyk2 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    Француз тілі әдемі, 🇰🇿❤️🇨🇵

  • @julesbinet1202
    @julesbinet1202 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Gloire, honneur et fidélité à la France

  • @octavianeandracles5868
    @octavianeandracles5868 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away"

    • @abysslheritier2252
      @abysslheritier2252 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I prefer this one :
      "Old soldiers never die, they enter in the legends"

  • @Algerreichen
    @Algerreichen ปีที่แล้ว +201

    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
    🇩🇿💚🇫🇷

    • @abysslheritier2252
      @abysslheritier2252 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      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

    • @ommsterlitz1805
      @ommsterlitz1805 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@abysslheritier2252 Il faut rappelez que les colonies viennent de la repoublique pas de l'Empire

    • @abysslheritier2252
      @abysslheritier2252 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@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

    • @ommsterlitz1805
      @ommsterlitz1805 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@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.

    • @AtaraxiaIsRainy
      @AtaraxiaIsRainy ปีที่แล้ว +1

      🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍

  • @olivierah
    @olivierah ปีที่แล้ว +120

    As a Mauritian I’m so appreciated of our ancestors’ music. 🇲🇺❤️🇫🇷

    • @CataciousAmogusevic
      @CataciousAmogusevic 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Bruh

    • @solce809
      @solce809 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      nigga what

    • @gnomekanft5785
      @gnomekanft5785 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Gloire à la francophonie !

    • @olivierah
      @olivierah 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@CataciousAmogusevic Why ?

    • @olivierah
      @olivierah 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@gnomekanft5785 Oui

  • @davidcabreonmunoz6258
    @davidcabreonmunoz6258 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    "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.

  • @kludzs3326
    @kludzs3326 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Beautiful song
    Greetings from Hungary

  • @martuuk3598
    @martuuk3598 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Vive Napoléon, vive la France 🇫🇷

    • @martuuk3598
      @martuuk3598 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Colbykanter Il y a une différence entre le peuple Français et l'état Français. Au cours de l'histoire on a d'ailleurs pas souvent été d'accord avec nos dirigeants, ils en ont perdus leurs têtes. Et je ne suis fan d'aucun dirigeant étranger, qui que ça puisse être.

  • @nibulsheep8214
    @nibulsheep8214 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I love how the map evolves as the song Goes, Before Gradually returning to it's original Boundaries

  • @loyaltyhonorkindofheaven
    @loyaltyhonorkindofheaven ปีที่แล้ว +21

    🇨🇵✝️🇧🇪 le Liégeois ce rappel de ce passé commun!

    • @nicolasdubus669
      @nicolasdubus669 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nous nous souvenons que nous sommes nés à Tournai en tant que Nation

  • @maheshhariharan4871
    @maheshhariharan4871 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    A wonderful song … perfect to the world to respect it . From India to France 🇫🇷 ❤❤

  • @Locxd
    @Locxd ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I love how the image of France changes size for every historical period for every chant

  • @ardugaleen2231
    @ardugaleen2231 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    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

    • @NoName-hg6cc
      @NoName-hg6cc ปีที่แล้ว +3

      True.
      🇮🇹❤🇫🇷❤🇪🇸

  • @sanneoi6323
    @sanneoi6323 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Brings me to tears, 十美!

  • @Nepalskiy
    @Nepalskiy ปีที่แล้ว +18

    "Ich Bin Soldat" melody)

    • @massineaznnag4508
      @massineaznnag4508 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      This is the original one

    • @Nepalskiy
      @Nepalskiy ปีที่แล้ว

      @@massineaznnag4508 i’m know

  • @Casus-Belli
    @Casus-Belli 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    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 🙏🏻

    • @nicolasdubus669
      @nicolasdubus669 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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

  • @legrandl5115
    @legrandl5115 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Gloire à l'Empereur et l'Empire Français
    🙏🏻✝️🇲🇫☦️🙏🏻
    🇲🇫🇪🇦🇮🇹🇧🇪🇱🇺🇨🇭🇩🇪🇵🇱🇸🇮 🇭🇷🇧🇻

    • @kurteisner67
      @kurteisner67 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No.

    • @troll5161
      @troll5161 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@kurteisner67 Yes.

    • @kurteisner67
      @kurteisner67 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@troll5161 Les révoltés du Moyen Âge...

  • @fab5170
    @fab5170 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    L italie, l Allemagne, la Pologne et les Etats unis sont les enfants de notre empereur. Celebrons cet héros ❤🇲🇫

    • @lesbergersdarcadie634
      @lesbergersdarcadie634 ปีที่แล้ว

      l'Empereur ? celui du soleil d'Austerlitz ??? notre Empereur ? celui qui avait donné à la France un code pénal ? celui qui avait de la France le première puissance en Europe ? celui dont on voudrait déboulonner les statues en 2022 ? la Grande Armée et l'Empereur sont dans la mémoire des Français pour longtemps !

    • @elijahtidswell8457
      @elijahtidswell8457 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Vive l'Empereur Napoléon

  • @Gallia_Christiana
    @Gallia_Christiana 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    Vive la France n’oubliez pas peu importe votre pays soyez Nationalistes et ne laisser aucun étranger vous coloniser soyez fort, soyez grands, soyez fière de vos racines, votre histoire, votre culture, votre identité. Battez vous pour défendre votre pays afin d’honorer la mémoire de vos ancêtres, la terre est notre chair et notre identité est notre sang. 🇫🇷🐓🪓

    • @hugogeneve9918
      @hugogeneve9918 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      L’idéal français jeté dans la boue par ce genre de propos…

    • @gael9339
      @gael9339 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@hugogeneve9918
      il est peut être un peu excessif mais l idéal Français c est pas accueillir l intégralité du tiers monde musulman désole!
      aujourd'hui c est n'importe quoi des zones entières de France ne sont plus la France!!!
      et ca c est gravissime!

    • @pierrelasperge1074
      @pierrelasperge1074 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      tous les Français sont fiers de la France.

    • @hugogeneve9918
      @hugogeneve9918 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Certes, mais tous les français ne sont pas des ethno-nationalistes et ne le seront jamais, quoiqu’en pensent ceux qui comme Galliaceltica dévoient notre drapeau et nos symboles (y compris la croix celtique que je déplore de voir associée à ce genre de propos)

    • @Gallia_Christiana
      @Gallia_Christiana 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ⁠@@hugogeneve9918les Celtes sont nos ancêtres si tu avais vécu en ces temps auraient tu dit aux Romains et aux Chrétiens venez envahissez nous on vous accepte au nom de l’inclusivité et du multi-culturalisme ? Eux qui ont lutté pour préserver nôtre langue, nos traditions, notre patrimoine historique, notre de vivre notre culture malheureusement en partie effacer à cause des gens comme toi ? Aurait tu dit la même chose aux Nazis pendant la seconde guerre mondiale ? Collaborer au nom de l’inclusivité ? Tu es un traître à la Nation et sache que la Nationalité n’est pas qu’un statut administratif l’étymologie même de Nation est littéralement: Ethnie, peuple, communauté humaine qui possède une unité historique, linguistique, culturelle. Nous ne pouvons faire Nations avec les Colons actuels nous n’avons pas les mêmes bases une des deux Nations périra et compte bien ajouter une victoire de plus au Pays qui possède le plus grand nombre de victoires militaires à Savoir la France. 🇫🇷🐓🪓

  • @OLYMPIANgreek
    @OLYMPIANgreek ปีที่แล้ว +62

    As a Hellene I always respected brave countries, especially France for taking Berlin under 3 weeks. 🗿🇫🇷 🤝🏻 🇬🇷🗿

    • @danielwoods3896
      @danielwoods3896 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @fandoggyetlescafards9070He’s supporting you, why antagonize him?

    • @kleinbaba3607
      @kleinbaba3607 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      🇫🇷🇬🇷👌
      My city in France was build by grec and Italian people and was the most beautiful city
      Grec people have named my city nizza from nikaia déesse of victory

    • @wertyuiopasd6281
      @wertyuiopasd6281 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yhea it was 5 day campaign actually 😅
      And on foot, no trains or cars.

    • @wertyuiopasd6281
      @wertyuiopasd6281 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@danielwoods3896 Not all "french" are Frenchmen these days.
      Careful.

    • @danielwoods3896
      @danielwoods3896 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@wertyuiopasd6281 true that. Or worse, he's Quebecois

  • @vedrane0
    @vedrane0 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    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.

  • @theodoreli1302
    @theodoreli1302 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    It literally made me almost crying. I can empathically feel for it on "To the veteran who begged for his bread".

  • @thenoobgameplays
    @thenoobgameplays ปีที่แล้ว +69

    I wasn't expecting it to have such a familiar tune

    • @seronymus
      @seronymus ปีที่แล้ว +4

      What is the melody from?

    • @kopper6200
      @kopper6200 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Colbykanter yah but just because a country did something "bad" doesn't justify sentencing it to months of war and suffering.

    • @zhonghengliu2757
      @zhonghengliu2757 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Is it the tune from Ich bin Soldat? link: th-cam.com/video/ZWClFjsaseE/w-d-xo.html

    • @lapotreducruciforme2685
      @lapotreducruciforme2685 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Colbykanter do you even look at the comment?

    • @padinspi11
      @padinspi11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Colbykanter
      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

  • @Norwegianboi
    @Norwegianboi ปีที่แล้ว +18

    It's so calming. It's my favorite song

  • @alexandersalter6686
    @alexandersalter6686 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I felt this… still relevant all these years later.

  • @lonelyheartproductions5237
    @lonelyheartproductions5237 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    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

    • @davidayos6702
      @davidayos6702 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      my man was inspired by my comment to create his own comment

    • @FREEJERVSALEM
      @FREEJERVSALEM ปีที่แล้ว

      @@davidayos6702 lol

  • @user-xo1xq6os5e
    @user-xo1xq6os5e ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Damn, makes me feel sad and patriotic even though I have no ties to Fance whatsoever

  • @NovakDjocovid
    @NovakDjocovid ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Vive l’Empereur, vive la France!

  • @robertoduran966
    @robertoduran966 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    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.

    • @elijahtidswell8457
      @elijahtidswell8457 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Vive l'France et l'Empereur

    • @tovarishlumberjack2356
      @tovarishlumberjack2356 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      defend? its not like napoleon conquered all of europe like hitler lol

    • @TheFrenchscot
      @TheFrenchscot 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      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.

    • @robertoduran966
      @robertoduran966 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes, I am agréé with you, tout à fait.

  • @mongolempire4267
    @mongolempire4267 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I love how every line of this song has a historical meaning.

  • @walemaa5631
    @walemaa5631 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Awesome, Ingen. Very nice song you have found here, it will probably go to my playlist

  • @adrianeduardomorante5104
    @adrianeduardomorante5104 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    The map of Napoleon Europe is so Beautiful

    • @abysslheritier2252
      @abysslheritier2252 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It was that beautiful...once. I hope it will be again one day

  • @lux_vita_caritas
    @lux_vita_caritas ปีที่แล้ว +10

    this song is so relaxing , peaceful and beautiful . i love that song so much.

  • @lucatthedoor5391
    @lucatthedoor5391 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Magnifique ! 🇨🇵

  • @user-pq6cn2dk4r
    @user-pq6cn2dk4r ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Gloire au grand Napoléon Bonaparte !

    • @ardugaleen2231
      @ardugaleen2231 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      nestor makno and loves the emperor, how can you get baseder

    • @kamilothman1899
      @kamilothman1899 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​​@@ardugaleen2231wasn't he a Russian anarchist who led the free territory? Wait didn't he escape to Paris?

    • @ardugaleen2231
      @ardugaleen2231 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kamilothman1899 he was a great man who believed in freedom of the People yes, and he went to die in Paris. Napoléon was criticisable but believed in dunking on anglos and prusstards which I whole heartedly agree with

  • @lollll591
    @lollll591 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    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.

  • @mathiask.5474
    @mathiask.5474 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    None of us fought during the Napoleonic Wars but this gives me nostalgia

  • @mafab7725
    @mafab7725 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Merci à la promotion "Général Eblé" de l'École Militaire Interarmes (promotion 2020-2022) pour cette belle interprétation.

  • @seronymus
    @seronymus ปีที่แล้ว +25

    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

    • @seronymus
      @seronymus ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Colbykanter so true oomfie!

    • @Logang007
      @Logang007 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Colbykanter god I didn’t realize Putin is better at propaganda then I was

    • @Andrew-or2gf
      @Andrew-or2gf ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Colbykanter 🇷🇺🐽

    • @Andrew-or2gf
      @Andrew-or2gf ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Colbykanter + 15 rubles 👍🇷🇺🐽

  • @srblackhat1
    @srblackhat1 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    This song feel like the end of a journey. The ending credits of the Napoleonic Wars.

  • @user-qy1ry7sk6y
    @user-qy1ry7sk6y ปีที่แล้ว +53

    Красивая песня)

    • @nikolasha8554
      @nikolasha8554 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      спасибо 🇫🇷❤🇷🇺

  • @pedrosalguero5664
    @pedrosalguero5664 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    This song is so wonderful it brought me to tears bravo bravo

  • @Wladyslas_
    @Wladyslas_ ปีที่แล้ว +12

    De loin la meilleure version disponible sur TH-cam.

  • @citoyen_anthony
    @citoyen_anthony ปีที่แล้ว +23

    I love this song. Thank you

  • @Canada1994
    @Canada1994 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    My Four Time Great Grandfather fought in the Grande Armee and was 20 when he survived the Russian Invasion. He also fought at Leipzig and Waterloo. If I have a son his middle name will be Nikolaus in his honour (He was an ethnic German from Alsace Lorraine)

    • @kostosz7994
      @kostosz7994 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Maybe Invasion of Russia?

    • @Canada1994
      @Canada1994 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@kostosz7994 No he was in the invasion. His obituary talked about his service and he was so proud to fight for Napoleon he loved to talk about it.

    • @kostosz7994
      @kostosz7994 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Canada1994 I mean Napoleon attacked Russia, not the second

    • @Canada1994
      @Canada1994 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@kostosz7994 I never said it was the second

    • @kostosz7994
      @kostosz7994 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Canada1994Okay, there is

  • @dimi3209
    @dimi3209 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    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 ❤

  • @samabedin786
    @samabedin786 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    This heartbreakingly beautiful song captures the Eternal Glory of France 🇫🇷 and the Emperor of the French! Vive La France 🇫🇷!

  • @eddd3329
    @eddd3329 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    the greatest music for the greatest ruler of all time
    rest in piece

  • @MelerionTheFirst
    @MelerionTheFirst ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Thanks, this song was very not popular, i discover it only a few month ago.
    But this is beautiful. And sad....

    • @MelerionTheFirst
      @MelerionTheFirst ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@Colbykanter 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.

    • @MelerionTheFirst
      @MelerionTheFirst ปีที่แล้ว

      Sorry it was really incorrect yesterday, now it must be good