Les Misérables - 15 - A La Volonté Du Peuple 

I am French and this song is just about the real soul of France and French people. Freedom and liberty and people

The 1991 version is better, and makes more sense than the 1980 original.

Liberte! Egalite! Fraternite!

I saw it in Paris a long long time ago. It was just so strong, powerful and beautiful. I confess I have never heard it in English. I will!

En france on écoute de la musique française, espagnol, anglaise, arabe, italien... Et cela même si on ne comprend pas il n'y a que vous les anglo-saxon (américains, anglais, australiens...) qui n'écouté que de la musique en anglais vous devez vous ouvrir au monde pour ne pas finir bête.

Némésis C'est justement ce qu'il dit, même si il ne comprend pas les paroles françaises il dit que la version françaises a un petit truc en plus et que le fait de ne pas comprendre les paroles n'est pas un obstacle au ressentie d'une chanson, et à la perception de sa beauté et de son pouvoir

There is no force in the world that breaks the language barrier more than the power of music.

Plus, this is the original version of the song before it was adapted into english, when they rereleased it in French it sounded like a French translation of the English version. I don't know why, but this original version just delivers more for me, a song of rebels......

D'ou vient cette information, s' il vous plait? Chanter comme ca et avoir de la fievre en meme temps... Un vrai Enjolras.

Michel est bien souffrant en ce début 2020. Nous pensons à lui.

@@veronikaberesova9793 De la biographie "En chantant" parue en 2012 chez Flammarion.

Erik W. S. A master piece

A mix of the three combine.

Yet the 1991 version is better: Enjolras: A la volonté du peuple Et à la santé du progrès, Remplis ton cœur d'un vin rebelle Et à demain, ami fidèle. Si ton coeur bat aussi fort Que le tambour dans le lointain C'est que l'espoir existe encore Pour le genre humain. Combeferre: Nous ferons une barricade Le symbol d'une ère qui commence Nous partons en croisade Au coeur de la terre sainte de France. Courfeyrac: Nous sommes désormais Les guerriers d'une armée qui s'avance! Tous: A la volonté du peuple Et à la santé du progrès, Remplis ton cœur d'un vin rebelle Et à demain, ami fidèle. Si ton coeur bat aussi fort Que le tambour dans le lointain C'est que l'espoir existe encore Pour le genre humain. Feuilly: A la volonté du peuple Je fais don de ma volonté S'il faut mourir pour elle, Moi je veux être le premier, Le premier nom gravé Au marbre du monument d'espoir. Tous: A la volonté du peuple Et à la santé du progrès, Remplis ton cœur d'un vin rebelle Et à demain, ami fidèle. Si ton coeur bat aussi fort Que le tambour dans le lointain C'est que l'espoir existe encore Pour le genre humain. A la volonté du peuple Et à la santé du progrès, Remplis ton cœur d'un vin rebelle Et à demain, ami fidèle. Si ton coeur bat aussi fort Que le tambour dans le lointain C'est que l'espoir existe encore Pour le genre humain. Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite! Reprise: A la volonté du peuple, Dont on n'étouffe jamais la voix, Et dont le chant renait toujour Et dont le chant renait deja, Nous voulons que la lumiere Déchire le masque de la nuit Pour illuminer notre terre Et changer la vie. Il viendra le jour glorieux Ou dans sa marche vers l'idéal L'homme ira faire le progres du mal Au bien, du faux au vrai Un rêve peut mourir Mais on n'enterre jamais l'avenir! Joignez-vous a la croisade, De ceux qui croient au genre humain? Pour une seule barricade qui tombe, Cent autres se lèveront demain! A la volonté du peuple, Un tambour chant dans le lointain Qui vient annoncer le grand jour Et c'est pour demain! Joignez-vous a la croisade, De ceux qui croient au genre humain? Pour une seule barricade qui tombe, Cent autres se lèveront demain! A la volonté du peuple, Un tambour chant dans le lointain Qui vient annoncer le grand jour Et c'est pour demain! Ah! C'est pour demain!

tu l'as fini? xD (9 ans après)

Tu as fini? Mon ami?

Ha! J'ai oublié que j'ai écrit ça. Oui, j'ai fini ce livre la même année! J'ai étudié le français depuis treize ans. Maintenant je ne pratique plus souvent, donc ma grammaire est moche!

Haha have a feeling you regretted this comment (many authors in this time period were paid by the word making their products long winded and painful to get through despite having an excellent story under all the extra garbage) (it’s been too long since I’ve taken a French class to properly comment in French sorry guys)

Michel Sardou

Michel Sardou is a LEGEND.He is a long career in France. Several of his songs involve world politics

VIVE LA FRANCE!!!!!!!

It's the soul of any revolution. The people willing to put their own lives in front of everything else because of their beliefs.

It's stupid. That's why they all died and that's why their little revolution failed so miserably it isn't even mentioned in textbooks. Instead of dying for our beliefs, we should try to live for them and change those around us through love rather than violence :) But I agree, I can't help but fall in love with their passion... I wish I didn't feel this way, but wouldn't it be nice to believe in something so completely?

You certainly never tried to change a monarchy through "love". We have a bloody past, do you think we wished for it ? Everyone would gladly embrace revolution through "love" (art, music, writing, etc). However, this only work when beside this "love revolution" there was an armed force actually fighting for it. When there wasn't, these "love revolutionaries" just ended with a death sentence. I know Les Misérables doesn't depict 1789-99 revolution but 1832's. Of course this revolution failed, it was 3000 rebels vs 40.000 of the regular army. They couldn't manage to get enough support because of the many problems the people faced at the time. Their failure was what made the 1848's revolution a success. From this failure, the 1848 revolution had learnt what to avoid and what to hit hard as well as how. It didn't fail miserably.

Oui cette chanson résonne toujours dans mon âme, comme si nous gardons éternellement l'espoir !

Outis- French a more beautiful language!

belinda8881 actually it means by the will of the people ( i'm not trying to be a dick or anything i'm just clarifying )

@@lynackhilou4865 "by the will" = "par la volonté" But he said "à la volonté" and not "par la volonté" "À la volonté du peuple" = "to the will" like before drink

Angélique MUNTZ et pourtant c’est la version originale du spectacle mis en scène par Robert OSSEIN celle des années 1980 l’origine du spectacle musical des misérables tout est parti de là!! Bien triste que la plupart des français l’ai oublié 😢

Moi non plus, j'ai seulement connait la version avec "si ton coeur bat aussi fort que le tambour dans le lointain...". C'est vraiment dommage, que ces chansons ont été perdus

@@Babe01D C'est la version originale studio, mais pas celle du spectacle. Sardou n'était pas dans la spectacle, car Robert Hossein ne voulait pas de vedette sur scène.

The 1991 version sounds better: Enjolras: For the will of the people, And for the health of the progress Fill up your heart with rebel wine, And till tomorrow, faithful friend! If the beating of your heart, Is as strong as the beating drums, It means that hope still does exist For the average man. Combeferre: We now build the barricade, The symbol of a new era which dawns, We leave on a crusade to the heart Of the land of France. Courfeyrac: We are henceforth the soldiers Of an army that will advance! All: For the will of the people, And for the health of the progress Fill up your heart with rebel wine, And till tomorrow, faithful friend! If the beating of your heart, Is as strong as the beating drums, It means that hope still does exist For the average man. Feuilly: For the will of the people, I am ready to give my will as well. If some must die for it, Then I want to be the first, Whose name shall be written Upon the monument of hope! All: For the will of the people, And for the health of the progress Fill up your heart with rebel wine, And till tomorrow, faithful friend! If the beating of your heart, Is as strong as the beating drums, It means that hope still does exist For the average man. For the will of the people, And for the health of the progress Fill up your heart with rebel wine, And till tomorrow, faithful friend! If the beating of your heart, Is as strong as the beating drums, It means that hope still does exist For the average man. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity! Reprise: For the will of the people, None can extinguish our voice, And so the song will ring out forever As it had so long before, We wish that our light, Will penetrate the mask of night, To illuminate our land And to change our lives. The glorious day will come When on its march towards the ideal, Mankind will progress from evil to good And from falsehoods to truth, A dream may yet die, But hope lives on forever! Will you join in our crusade, Of those with hopes for humanity? For every fallen barricade, One hundred more will rise again! For the will of the people, We hear the sound of distant drums, Announcing the future that they bring When tomorrow comes! Will you join in our crusade, Of those with hopes for humanity? For every fallen barricade, One hundred more will rise again! For the will of the people, We hear the sound of distant drums, Announcing the future that they bring When tomorrow comes! Ah! Tomorrow comes!

Remplis ton cœur d'un vin rebelle et à demain ami fidèle !

你好:-)

+Alice Green I personally think "by the will of the people" might be a better translation, but we're in the general idea.

Zack Horne I Aldo think that night up should be enlighten, to make the link with the Enlightement, Les Lumieres

@How bout' you chill the English version is not a direct translation of the French version

I would translate "A La Volonté Du Peuple" as "to the will of the people" like they're giving a toast rather than "at"

What on earth is a volition? Other than that, pretty good

Lol

This wasn't the French Revolution, this was a student uprising-- which failed.

@@MaskedMan66 It was still French tho.

+Alina Rainy Gloria Boublil and Schönberg already wrote a musical about the French Revolution in 1973. In fact, Schönberg played Louis XVI. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JQHyn2Ft72Y.html

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lG44X2rWPoA.html

Yellow Vests

It is the same composer who made the new songs

Et bien regardez les 1 versions françaises....C'est bien mieux que Sardou.... Je ne sens absolument aucune révolution dans le chant de sardou...

Le film m'a déplu au point de quitter la salle. Les chants y sont extrêmement décevants. Dommage!

les paroles anglaises sont absolument nulles par comparaison, même pas de photo. Sardou le mec pour moi c’est une incarnation de la France assez parfaite, avec son franc parler, ses chansons d’amour qui font des frissons, et sa nature d’un rebelle quelquefois.

Why I personally like this better than the English version: The English version is more about complaining "do you hear the people sing," but this one is more about giving up your life for the greater will of the people... I know this is groupthink and the reason why revolutions and mass movements normally turn out horribly (think French revolution) but it is also a beautiful tide to be swept in: the feeling of belonging. It also is a lot closer to the actual sentiment students may have had in that period of time, as students are often overwhelmed by idealism and all that nonsense in the impressionable state of adolescence... xD Speaking of similarities to the book, this also reflects Enjolras's attitude in the book. He claims to be married to France and devotes his entire existence to the revolution. I feel his personality agrees more w/ this version of the song, as he is more willing to give up his life for the greater good (as shown in this song) than for his own selfish anger (as shown in the English version) Tell me if you have any other ideas! I would love to hear more interpretations of Les Mis, being a total Les Mis fan!

a la sante = a toast to

We must win the war / We will plow a furrow (?) isn't the best way to translate the idea of this rhymes. It would be something like "we have to win, forcibly, a piece of land to cultivate". the songwriter actually induces, with "par la guerre", that it's the last possibility and not a choice of violence ; and with "notre sillon à labourer", a SINGLE plow, he emphazise the fact that it's quite a lot of effort for a very small request in the end.

Thanks so much! I changed the words... sorry I'm kinda awful at French

The lyrics are way better and the arrangement is powerful, so no surprise

RLtW88 that’s why. The lyrical messaging doesn’t get into the way, you just have to surrender yourself over to the emotional demands of the song itself.

This song is sang by the french people, on the road to a révolution against monarchy, willing to give their life for the future of their childrens 😁

I kinda know the background but thanks a lot for the info!