Today, in 1832, June 5th, the June Rebellion broke out in France between the Republican and Democratic people against the Monarchists and the military, barricades out of everything were made in streets and in buildings. Although they failed, it was one of the sparks that kindled change and a revolution in France.

If you're not a big history fan or fan of France, I suggest watching or reading or hearing Victor Hugo's Les Misèrables! It's an absolute must! Great captivating story, awesome characters, phenomenal song numbers, a history lesson, you gotta love this book! It's one of my favorite fandoms right next to Sherlock Holmes, The Phantom of the Opera, and Doctor Who!

Check this out, this is the French version of "Do You Hear the People Sing" in the play and the movie, it was sung by the Friends of the ABC (Les Amis de l'ABC), it's one of my favorite songs in the play/movie, and it's even more epic and inspirational in French!

Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!

Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?
Courfeyrac:
Then join in the fight
That will give you the right to be free!

Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!

Will you give all you can give
So that our banner may advance
Some will fall and some will live
Will you stand up and take your chance?
The blood of the martyrs
Will water the meadows of France!

Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes! 


*****


A la volonté du peuple
Et à la santé du progrès,
Remplis ton cœur d'un vin rebelle
Et à demain, ami fidèle.
Nous voulons faire la lumière
Malgré le masque de la nuit
Pour illuminer notre terre
Et changer la vie.

Il faut gagner à la guerre
Notre sillon à labourer,
Déblayer la misère
Pour les blonds épis de la paix
Qui danseront de joie
Au grand vent de la liberté.

A la volonté du peuple
Et à la santé du progrès,
Remplis ton cœur d'un vin rebelle
Et à demain, ami fidèle.
Nous voulons faire la lumière
Malgré le masque de la nuit
Pour illuminer notre terre
Et changer la vie.

A la volonté du peuple,
Je fais don de ma volonté.
S'il faut mourir pour elle,
Moi je veux être le premier,
Le premier nom gravé
Au marbre du monument d'espoir.

A la volonté du peuple
Et à la santé du progrès,
Remplis ton cœur d'un vin rebelle
Et à demain, ami fidèle.
Nous voulons faire la lumière
Malgré le masque de la nuit
Pour illuminer notre terre
Et changer la vie.

Pretty awesome, right? Doesn't it just make you feel patriotic as hell even though you aren't French in anyway? And that it makes you want to take up a red flag, build a barricade out of your table, your chairs, your hamster cage, and you other furniture in the middle of your street, pull out a musket, and sing this song? Yeah, that's what I feel whenever I hear this! It's definitely better than the English version, even though I can't understand 1 out of 30 words in this song.

Although, while I was listening to this I was constantly gesturing widely and mouthing the words terribly. Imagine singing in the shower to the English version, and then your bastard of a roommate tossed a toaster in with you and then you're being electrified but you're too into the song to stop and you just look stupid. Yeah, that's what I looked like, practically. To be honest, it was like, 2 in the morning and I had coffee a few minutes ago and I just read some Les Misèrables.

Not only does the book/play give you a pretty good picture of what France was Post-Napoleon, but its story stays with you even after you watched the movie, the play, and the book (after like, 2 years). It's one of the best books and play and movie that I know of, the soundtrack is simply fucking amazing! If I went back in time to 19th century France, I would thank that white-haired genius and give him like, ten trophies. And that's only for the 2012 super condensed movie inspired by his novel.
France is pretty damn awesome.


Don't forget, my friends: Libertè, Ègalitè, Fraternitè (or Death). Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, unity, quality in everything, and brotherhood, these are what we strive for, what we work for, raise your barricade, raise the red flag, forward unto dawn!

I can definitely tell that the Government might seize me for this hahahahaha So-/viet/ lol

And for the hell of it, here's a video of the fairly-recent game Assassin's Creed Unity, which  is set in Revolutionary France, Assassins, France, Revolution, parkour, multiplayer? Hell yeah!