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As it happens La Marseillaise was originally the war song of the French Rhine Army, which was led by a German-born (Bavarian) field Marshal at the time, and was
by mytailorisrich 4y ago
As it happens La Marseillaise was originally the war song of the French Rhine Army, which was led by a German-born (Bavarian) field Marshal at the time, and was written after France declared war to Austria.
This was long before German unification and the head-on rivalry it created.