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La Marseillaise as reactionary nationalism

La Marseillaise as reactionary nationalism

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I was looking at video on Twitter and sending responses with GIFs, as is my wont. (I’ve been told this makes me a dinosaur, or some other pejorative, and I don’t give a good goshdarn).

One of the GIFs I found was of Madeleine Lebeau concluding a stirring singing of the French national anthem with a cry of “Vive la France!” in this brilliant scene in Cas…

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