Toulon, France: Vaccine Passport Protesters Sing La Marseillaise Anthem Aug. 21, 2021

🇫🇷💪🏻 THE FRENCH ANTHEM AGAINST THE VACCINE PASSPORTShow more

👉🏻 In Toulon, thousands of demonstrators who oppose the vaccine passport and compulsory vaccination sang La Marseillaise, the French national anthem.

ℹ️ La Marseillaise is a song written at the time of the Revolution of 1789. The warlike lyrics are often denounced for their violence: it is about taking revenge on traitors, tyrants and invaders by waging a merciless war against them. The song is literally a call to insurrection and war, to revolution.

📌 Note: since the beginning of the populist movement of opposition to the vaccine passport in France, historical symbols have flourished in the demonstrations: revolutionary, republican, royalist, Napoleonic, regional flags, flags from the 1940 Resistance...

🔎 This lack of coherence in the symbols nevertheless demonstrates that the protesters see themselves as resistance fighters leading a historical or even millenarian crusade