La Brabançonne
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History
According to legend, the Belgian national anthem was written in September 1830, during the Belgian Revolution, by a young revolutionary called "Jenneval", who read the lyrics during a meeting at the Aigle d'Or café.
Jenneval, a Frenchman whose real name was Alexandre Dechet (sometimes known as Louis-Alexandre Dechet), wrote the Brabançonne. At the time, he was an actor at the theatre where, in August 1830, the revolution started, which led to independence from the Netherlands. Jenneval died in the war of independence. François van Campenhout composed the accompanying score, based on the tune of a French song called "L'Air des lanciers polonais" ("the tune of the Polish Lancers"), written by the French poet Eugène de Pradel, whose tune was itself an adaptation of the tune of a song, "L'Air du magistrat irréprochable", found in a popular collection of drinking songs called La Clé du caveau (The Key to the cellar)[1][2] and it was first performed in September 1830.
In 1860, Belgium formally adopted the song and music as its national anthem, although the then prime minister, Charles Rogier, edited out lyrics attacking the Dutch House of Orange, inspired by the version written by Louis Hymans.[3]
The Brabançonne is also a monument (1930) by the sculptor Charles Samuel on the Surlet de Chokier square in Brussels. The monument contains partial lyrics of both the French and Dutch versions of the anthem. Like many elements in Belgian folklore, this is mainly based on the French "La Marseillaise" which is also both an anthem and the name of a monument – the sculptural group Departure of the Volunteers of 1792, commonly called La Marseillaise, at the base of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
Lyrics
1830 original lyrics
First version (August 1830)
Second version (September 1830)
Third version (1860)
Current version
Various committees were charged with reviewing the text and tune of the Brabançonne and establishing an official version. A ministerial circular of the Ministry of the Interior on 8 August 1921 decreed that only the fourth verse of the text by Charles Rogier should be considered official for all three, French, German and in Dutch.
| French (La Brabançonne) | IPA transcriptionTemplate:Efn | English translation |
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Noble Belgium, O dear mother |
| Dutch (Script error: No such module "Lang".) | IPA transcriptionTemplate:Efn | English translation |
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O dear Belgium, O holy land of the fathers, |
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O dear country, O Belgium's soil; |
Modern short trilingual version
In recent years, an unofficial short version of the anthem is sung during Belgian National Day on 21 July each year, combining the words of the anthem in all three of Belgium's official languages, similar to the bilingual version of "O Canada".[4] The lyrics are from the 4th verse of the anthem.
| Language | No. | Line | IPA transcriptionTemplate:EfnTemplate:EfnTemplate:Efn | Translation |
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| Dutch | 1 | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | O dear Belgium, O holy land of the fathers – |
| 2 | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | Our soul and our heart are devoted to you! | |
| French | 3 | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | With blood to spill for you, O fatherland! |
| 4 | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | We swear with one cry – You shall live! | |
| German | 5 | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | So gladly bloom in beauty full, |
| 6 | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | Into what freedom has taught you to be, | |
| 7 | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | And evermore shall sing your sons: | |
| French | 8 | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | The King, the Law, the Liberty! |
| Dutch | 9 | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | Faithful to the word that you may speak boldly, |
| 10 | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | For King, for Freedom and for Law! | |
| German | 11 | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | To Law and King and Freedom, hail! |
| French | 12 | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | The King, the Law, the Liberty! |
See also
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- "De Vlaamse Leeuw"
- "Le Chant des Wallons"
- Place des Martyrs, Brussels
- "Vers l'avenir"
- "Le Plat Pays"
Notes
References
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External links
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- Belgium: La Brabançonne – Audio of the national anthem of Belgium, with information and lyrics (archive link)
- Les Arquebusiers History, versions (text and audio) and illustrations
- Belgium National Anthem instrumental File MIDI (5ko)
- Belgium National Anthem instrumental (better) File AU (570ko)
- Template:Trim Template:Replace on YouTubeScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".; Helmut Lotti, in French, Dutch and German, before King Albert II
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