Le Capitaine "Au mur!" , The Captain "Against the Wall!" - Paris Commune Song about The Bloody Week

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This French Revolutionary Song Based-Composition by Armand Mestral is about The national French Army suppressing the Commune at the end of May during La semaine sanglante ("The Bloody Week") beginning on 21 May 1871. After the siege The national forces killed in battle or quickly executed between 10,000 and 15,000 Communards (Supporters of the Commune), though one unconfirmed estimate from 1876 put the toll as high as 20,000. In its final days which is the theme of the song

[@ive_mclost_my_account_oh_n2566]

The last few lines shook me a little "Just shoot me you dirty Carrion! One, you can kiss my ass, Two, Long live the commune!"

[@Eliza-yd7fi]

you can see my ass*

[@edfratello9965]

Chilling song. Originally, I thought this was about french soldier deserting during WW1. But with the lyrics this song has a more chilling themes. Good song

[@krimson2448]

On ne parlera jamais assez du charisme d'Armand Mestral.

[@nolanmaisey]

0:36 'soixante-dix' means seventy, not sixty.

[@doberlino]

qu'ouïe-je? un chant de la commune avec un logo Padoru? 😁😁 excellent!!! 👍👍 alors faire de la besogne au chassepot 😊😊

[@ccec5492]

Ç koi un chassepot ?😂❤,???

[@keemstarkreamstar7069]

@@ccec5492A French rifle.

[@doberlino]

@@ccec5492 un fusil, le premier fusil à chargement par la culasse, à cette époque les français, bien qu'ils n'avaient pas de pétrole, ils avaient des idées, aujourd'hui, toujours pas pas de pétrole😔😔 ... (au cas ou je fait référence à une très vieille pub... 😊😊) et pour info, le lebel (1ère guerre mondiale) est une évolution du chassepot, maintenant tu vas briller en société 😉😉

[@camaradecarter]

Soixante dix ans = 70 years old The translations isnt that great, I could do it for you if you're interested, I am a native french speaker

[@Ptoly]

Yeah sorry about the translation, I couldn't really find any translations for the song so I just used google translate and did some parts myself, I don't plan on remaking the video yet but if you'd like you could help me with some future translations for french songs i might do

[@ThebearCornal]

My friend, is the line Auguste, where she states she is "13 years old" according to the translation, accurate? All translations I have read on the net state she is 13.

[@Ptoly]

@@ThebearCornal I believe he's referring to the old man who says he is 60/70 and to shoot him quick

[@testofmeme5663]

Auguste IS a boy and he hais 13 years old ( I am french)

[@oracle372]

@@testofmeme5663 I thought it was a she because the previous line said "I was in an ambulance women do not fight"

[@ccec5492]

Et le lorrain 😂?❤

[@Venezios]

can someone explain to me the widow at 1:15? what does the armband have to do with the situation? did she get shot or not? I also don't really understand the kid at around 2:00, what's up with him?

[@Ptoly]

The "Tri-Colored armband" is the flag of France which means that she isn't apart of the rebellion and her husband really did fight for the French I don't really understand your question but most of the people were held against the firing squad for no reason, just like the 13 year old. It basically just resembles the unjust/disorganized state of the french army to the point that they'd arrest a 13 year old and the many false convictions that happened during the paris commune massacre

[@emilienlefevre7305]

For the tricolor armband, the Commune was notably triggered by battalions of the National Guard. Many were created to defend the country after the defeat of Napoleon III. Disappointed by the conservative Republic, the National Guards of the popular districts federated to manage themselves and took red armbands as a sign of rallying. In opposition, the others remained faithful to the "Versaillais" took blue-white-red armbands (tri-colored armband). So the widow proves she's on the same side as the captain. But the repression is so blind that it is also shot. And for the kid, his story is similar. The whole song wishes to show that the repression was so violent that the soldiers condemned everyone: men, women, children, old people, communards like, neutrals and supporters of the government. So the child is there like a figure of innocence killed by blind and massive repression.

[@katra5673]

The armband is separate from the widow situation. The widow and the armband-wearing-person are two different people. I'm not sure about the kid.

[@Venezios]

@@emilienlefevre7305 oh damn, so everyone in the song was shot? I knew that the song was about how the people of the commune were reppressed and stuff, but I thought that some people in the song escaped execution (like the guy who makes a list of communists or the priest or something)

[@wiegraf9009]

Everyone goes "to the wall" regardless of their situation yeah @@Venezios

[@emrecanarduc4378]

one of the most lore deep songs of french left. Good one but hard to understand in english

[@VincentVelilla]

ça me fait pleurer . l'humain est cruel sauf ceux de la commune qui voulaient le bonheur du peuple

[@soppal_1697]

Ahah

[@tutoumi1029]

​@@soppal_1697pk ''ahah'' ? Ils aurait gagner la guerre civil si ils etait pas aussi pacifistes, je ne dis pas qu'ils etait entrainé, mais au debut de la guerre, le gouvernement de Thiers etait sans defense, il aurait ete facile de l'abattre mais les communards ne l'on pas fait par sympathie pour leur freres humains

[@marcbuisson2463]

La répression a été abominable, mais honnêtement, faire preuve de tant de naïveté et généralité sur un mouvement aussi pluriel et anarchique, aussu décentralisé et divergent que la Commune, c'est assez fort. C'est une jacquerie parisienne, et ça a récupéré bien, bien plus de retentissement que l'immense majorité des mouvements précédents, ruraux, ou non issus de la capitale.

[@tutoumi1029]

@@marcbuisson2463 hé, ça a marché un moment, et seul Adolphe Thiers nous a empêcher de voir si cette solution était viable, la décentralisation quant a elle est nécessaire pour empêcher dictature et monarchie, le communisme était originalement très décentralisé, mais malheureusement certain gredin en ont changer cela pour finir seul au pouvoir, et puisque étant quasiment fou comme la majorité des gens voulant soumettre les autres, ils entachent la réputation du communisme encore aujourd'hui. On ne sera donc jamais si tu a bien raison et si nous somme naïf mais il faut blâmé ce "républicain" et "démocrate" qu'est Adolphe Thiers. "Un peuple instruit est un peuple ingouvernable." -Adolphe Thiers

[@aidenpeterson7523]

Ils étaient pas blanc non plus.

[@ABPHistory]

what does the lorraine guy mean

[@Ptoly]

I'm not sure... But I assume it speaks about the Battle of Gravelotte in Lorraine which can also be a family name

[@veilumn4369]

he says he fought the Prussians in the 1870 war and avenged the people of Lorraine, who are now governed by the Germans

[@Charleville1777]

La Lorraine et une région de France annexé par la nouvelle Allemagne en 1870 (année de la commune)

[@veilumn4369]

@@Charleville1777 oui c'est ce que je dis, la région a été annexé par les allemands et le gars dont il est question dit qu'il a vengé les Lorrains en combattant les prussiens

[@ccec5492]

..., 😂 , merci pour les explications sur les chassepot (!) , j imaginais d autres significations... , perso je suis pas guerrière !!! , ❤ , à une autre fois 😂

[@ccec5492]

Auguste ou augure , et le chasse peaux il est pas mort ?❤,

[@LesclochesdeLoire]

Le chassepot c un fusil

[@hachemledarka2854]

ww1

[@Yozef161]

gneh ?

[@marcbuisson2463]

Nop, that's a song about the military repression following the 1871 Commune de Paris. A french commanding officer going through the parisian population to designate who will be shot, and who won't. The wall is likely the "Mur des Fédérés" (Federal's wall). The parisian who rebelled and tried to set up a parisian government nicknamed themselves the federals, by opposition to thr centralised government in Versaille. Or the "Communards", those of the Commune de Paris, which will later give the word Communist, even though communism has very different revendications.