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FAMOUS SONGS
words go so well together that they seem to have sprung simultaneously from the same brain, and the world, even if I proclaimed my indebtedness to you, would never believe it." " Keep the loan," I said, moved in spite of my-self, by his candour. " Without your genius, my march would be forgotten by now. You have given it a patent of nobility. It is yours for ever."'"
This is quite touching, but unfortunately the dates don't fit in; the Reign of Terror was scarcely consummated until 1793, when Robes-pierre for a time was triumphant, de Lisle was undoubtedly at Strasbourg in 1792, and was not taken captive till more than a twelvemonth after the song was turning all France into demons, and, as I have said, the song was already pub-lished vn. England by J. Bland, Holborn, London. But I am enabled to demolish this fable of Boucher by advancing the countless fictitious claims of other impostors. Amongst the many appears to have been a certain Holtzmann who was discovered by a Monsieur Tappert. Only quite recently (1892) the origin of "La Mar-seillaise" was greatly exercising the minds of the good people of Cahors. It seems, according to the correspondent of a London news-paper, that the bishop of that place happened to
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