Not so for the French, who have "La Marseillaise," composed by Claude Joseph de Lisle in 1792 as the French Revolution was in full swing. With its steady, martial beat and pleasing melody, ...

La Marseillaise was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, a 31-year-old soldier and amateur violinist. He was in Strasbourg on the night of 25 April fearing Austria was about to invade ...

Throughout a day marked by pageantry and declarations of friendship between the two countries on Tuesday, the French ...

The words of “La Marseillaise” will reverberate across England once more after the English Premier League agreed to play the French national anthem at each of its games this weekend. The EPL ...

Madeleine LeBeau, a French actress who fled Nazi-occupied Europe for Hollywood, where she made the best of a small role as the scorned girlfriend of Humphrey Bogart’s Rick Blaine in ...

Last night's opening at the Lyric Opera brought some in the audience to tears, but it was more about current events than the performance.