Elgar, Tchaikovsky, Verdi and The Beatles all used the French national anthem, but what makes it such a good tune? There is a certain risk associated with writing a national anthem: you never know ...

Changes to French educational curricula rarely make headline news in Britain. However, both The Times and the Daily Telegraph felt it worth reporting on a recent decision to make primary-school pupils ...

If you plan on singing La Marseillaise before or during the England v France match later tonight as a show of respect, we’d like see your video France and England are readying themselves for an ...

France's justice minister is facing calls for her resignation after she refused to take part in what she called "karaoke" by singing the French national anthem. Christiane Taubira was criticised on ...

This is the remarkable moment the National Assembly of the French parliament spontaneously broke into "La Marseillaise", the country’s national anthem, following a ...