Vive Le Roi (Long Live the King), alternatively known as Le Chant du Jura, is a French song written in 1814 to celebrate the restoration of the Bourbon Dynasty to the French throne. The song was written by Rouget de Lisle, who famously wrote La Marseillaise, the French national anthem.
Long live the King!
Noble cry of old France,
Cry of hope
Of happiness of love and faith!
Too long stifled by crime and our tears
Shines forth more brilliantly and more full of charms.
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Long live the King!
Long live forever, long live the King!
2
Long live the King!
Sad lovers, poor mothers,
unhappy fathers,
emerge from your long turmoil.
Hardly has the cry of joy sounded.
He gives you back the objects dear to your affection.
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3
Long live the King!
Candour, gaiety, sweet companions
In our mountains
May this name carry you with it
Adored Béarnais! The sky under this auspice [ 3 ]
Will finally allow his day to be fulfilled.
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4
Long live the King!
Famous cry dear to victory
Sign of glory
More triumphant wake up
O Bayard ! O Guesclin ! your shadows exiled
In the paternal airs by him are recalled
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5
Long live the King!
Fatherland, honor, sublime flames
Ah! of our souls
As of old be the law
That France and its King be happy through each other
From their common happiness ours will finally be born.
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