L'Ajaccienne - Napoleonic Bicentenary Special - Bonapartist Music

That's my homage to l'Empereur in this 200th of his death.
(Turn on the subtitles to see the lyrics in French or the translation to English and Portuguese)
L'Ajaccienne is a song created in Ajaccio in 1848 when the law of exile of the Bonapartes in France was repealed. It will be picked up later by Tino Rossi, José Luccioni.
On the occasion of the return of the Emperor's ashes to Paris in February 1840, Ajaccio's municipal council once again demanded the abolition of the law of exile which removed the Bonapartes from Corsica (and France). This deletion will not be voted on until 1848.
Prince Jérôme-Napoléon, son of King Jérôme and nephew of Napoleon, was the first Bonaparte to return to Ajaccio in 1848. He was welcomed with great solemnity by civil and military authorities, he was carried in triumph to the ancestral house. In his speech, he pronounced the formula: "Long live the Emperor, Long live the Republic! “, Contradictory today but at the time rather consensual.
In the parade which then traverses the city, we hear for the first time, mixed with the Marseillaise, a new song, Ajaccienne. It would have been sung for the first time on April 15, 1848, shortly after the fall of Louis-Philippe.
The author is Jean François Costa (1813-1889) who was sub-prefect of Sartene from 1841 to 1848 then passed to the Court of Auditors.
Not long ago at the end of the 3rd verse, the audience was physically on their knees, which characterized a popular devotion, going beyond the usual political affiliation. Gradually Ajaccienne passed from the domain of militant Bonapartism to that of identity sentimentality. A socialist or a Corsican communist did not sing Ajaccienne on his island but he could very well sing it on the continent or in the colonies, it was a kind of "national song" where political references were no longer felt.
This video was made with scenes of the movies Désirée (1954) and Waterloo (1970), the series Napoleon (2002), and the re-enactment of the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's exile on Elba. I have used some filming of "documentaries", propaganda of tourism in Ajaccio, and aerial images of the Versailles Palace too.
The tourism propaganda: • PAYS D'AJACCIO
The "documentary": • Corsica discovery tour
The re-enactment: • Huge re-enactment mark...
The images of Versailles: • Versailles vu du ciel

[@rose72br]

Vive la France! Vive la Révolution! Vive l'Empereur! 🇫🇷❤️🇫🇷

[@JohnnyReb10]

Obrigado

[@JohnnyReb10]

Ou melhor Merci Camarade

[@tony8717]

Vive la Révolution!
Vive la République!
Vive l'Empire!
Vive l'Empereur!
*VIVE LA FRANCE!!!*

[@Canada1994]

I plan on going on a Napoleon themed tour of France someday. I plan on starting at Paris to go to Les Invalides, Notre Dame, The Louvre and Tuileries and all the architecture Napoleon I and III did to the city. I than plan to go to the Palace of Fontainebleau where he abdicated and Napoleon III spent a lot of time there as Emperor. I then plan to go down the Route Napoleon marking his return from Elba from the coast to Grenoble. I plan on ending it in Ajaccio in time for the anniversary of Napoleon's birthday where they have a city wide festival in his honour and see the Maison Bonaparte. I may head to Elba in Italy too.

[@rose72br]

I want to do this someday too. 😉

[@BlackHawk2b]

You made a typo at the start of the description ^^ (18481)
Ah et la Corse c'est la vie
Et Vive l'Empereur !

[@rose72br]

Thank you! I just fix the typo. 😉

[@friedrichengels4ever526]

La dernière image est criminelle
Mettre Christian Clavier en Napoléon !

[@rose72br]

🤣🤣🤣
Ce film est horrible ! Je viens de trouver cette scène épique. Mais pour sûr, Christian Clavier est le meilleur Napoléon.