An idea that I had rolling around in my head from this thread

The national anthem of France - The song of Marseilles 'La Marseillaise' (even though apparently it comes from near Strasbourg) has become famous as a rousing call to arms "allons citoyens, formez battalions!" for instance. And yet, to my knowledge, besides the brief July Monarchy stint, after Napoléon I had it replaced with "Salut au Veillons" until well after the Paris Commune (1879), the anthem was banned.

What if the royalists had adjusted the lyrics somewhat, by toning down the republican polemic, and then adopted the anthem on Louis XVIII's restauration after the 100 Days?
 
The problem is that "toning down the lyrics" essentially requires a complete rewrite from scratch. The song, after all, is a call for patriotic French citizens to rise up and take arms, which is not a message the Bourbons will want to encourage, even if you eliminate the calls to take arms specifically against "tyranny." Especially not after the 100 Days had demonstrated exactly how willing the populace was to take arms for them.

You could conceivably set entirely new lyrics to the same tune, but at that point you are taking extreme measures to promote a song associated with regicide (and remember that OTL, Henri, Count of Chambord turned down a chance to be restored as king, merely because the French insisted on keeping the tricolor).
 
Sure, but you still fundamentally have a song calling on the people to rise up in arms. That's the part that the Bourbons won't like; for them, the people going "to arms" is a dangerous act, even if it's Royalists doing it.
 
The problem is that "toning down the lyrics" essentially requires a complete rewrite from scratch. The song, after all, is a call for patriotic French citizens to rise up and take arms, which is not a message the Bourbons will want to encourage, even if you eliminate the calls to take arms specifically against "tyranny." Especially not after the 100 Days had demonstrated exactly how willing the populace was to take arms for them.

You could conceivably set entirely new lyrics to the same tune, but at that point you are taking extreme measures to promote a song associated with regicide (and remember that OTL, Henri, Count of Chambord turned down a chance to be restored as king, merely because the French insisted on keeping the tricolor).

Okay, this was just a random idea. I figured maybe if Chambord agrees to adopt an "adapted" version of La Marseillaise - a sort of middle course between La Marseillaise and the La Marseillaise des Blancs - the tricolor issue won't look so bad. Since presumably, OTL, he would've demanded that the anthem go back to "Marche Henri IV" of the Restauration.

I came across an interesting opinion on the Marseillaise:

the view was that La Marseillaise was the anthem the French most associated with freedom and the principles of liberty, equality and fraternity, take that away from them, and you could just as well have a prison with over eighty-million inmates

But I bow to you peoples' superior opinions.
 
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