Music Broadside c. 1850s The Marseilles Hymn, Boston

Music Broadside c. 1860s "The Marseilles Hymn." "Sold at wholesale by HORACE PARTRIDGE, No. 27 Hanover Street, Boston 5 1/2"x9". Fold creases, dogears, but we have a border of the once adjoining piece.

Partridge is recorded at 105 Hanover St. in the 1860s. We believe that prior to then he was at 27 Hanover St. In the mid 19th c. There was a lingering appreciation for the French Revolution despite its excesses and highjacking by Napoleon. It was widely felt that the French Revolution was modeled on the American Revolution. There was lingering appreciation also for the French because of their decisive intervention in the American Revolution, an appreciation that seems not to have survived to present day. During the civil war, the south appreciated the Marseilles for its revolutionary overtones. The Union also appreciated it for the reasons put forth above and because it was a great marching tune.

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