| De plaines en forêts de vallons en collines
| From plains to forests from valleys to hills
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| Du printemps qui va naître à tes mortes saisons
| From the spring that will be born to your dead seasons
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| De ce que j’ai vécu à ce que j’imagine
| From what I've been through to what I imagine
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| Je n’en finirai pas d'écrire ta chanson
| I won't stop writing your song
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| Ma France
| My France
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| Au grand soleil d'été qui courbe la Provence
| To the great summer sun that bends Provence
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| Des genêts de Bretagne aux bruyères d’Ardèche
| From the broom of Brittany to the heather of Ardèche
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| Quelque chose dans l’air a cette transparence
| Something in the air has this transparency
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| Et ce goût du bonheur qui rend ma lèvre sèche
| And this taste of happiness that makes my lip dry
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| Ma France
| My France
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| Cet air de liberté au-delà des frontières
| That air of freedom beyond borders
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| Aux peuples étrangers qui donnaient le vertige
| To foreign people who made you dizzy
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| Et dont vous usurpez aujourd’hui le prestige
| And whose prestige you usurp today
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| Elle répond toujours du nom de Robespierre
| She always answers to the name of Robespierre
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| Ma France
| My France
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| Celle du vieil Hugo tonnant de son exil
| That of old Hugo thundering from his exile
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| Des enfants de cinq ans travaillant dans les mines
| Five-year-old children working in the mines
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| Celle qui construisit de ses mains vos usines
| She who built your factories with her hands
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| Celle dont monsieur Thiers a dit qu’on la fusille
| The one Monsieur Thiers said was being shot
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| Ma France
| My France
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| Picasso tient le monde au bout de sa palette
| Picasso holds the world at the end of his palette
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| Des lèvres d'Éluard s’envolent des colombes
| From the lips of Eluard fly away doves
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| Ils n’en finissent pas tes artistes prophètes
| They do not end your artists prophets
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| De dire qu’il est temps que le malheur succombe
| To say it's time for misfortune to succumb
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| Ma France
| My France
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| Leurs voix se multiplient à n’en plus faire qu’une
| Their voices multiply into one
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| Celle qui paie toujours vos crimes vos erreurs
| The one who always pays for your crimes, your mistakes
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| En remplissant l’histoire et ses fosses communes
| By filling in history and its mass graves
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| Que je chante à jamais celle des travailleurs
| May I forever sing that of the workers
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| Ma France
| My France
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| Celle qui ne possède en or que ses nuits blanches
| The one who only has gold in her sleepless nights
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| Pour la lutte obstiné de ce temps quotidien
| For the stubborn struggle of this daily time
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| Du journal que l’on vend le matin d’un dimanche
| Of the newspaper that is sold on a Sunday morning
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| A l’affiche qu’on colle au mur du lendemain
| On the poster that we stick to the wall of tomorrow
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| Ma France
| My France
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| Qu’elle monte des mines descende des collines
| Let her go up from the mines come down from the hills
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| Celle qui chante en moi la belle la rebelle
| The one who sings in me the beautiful the rebel
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| Elle tient l’avenir, serré dans ses mains fines
| She holds the future, tight in her slender hands
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| Celle de trente-six à soixante-huit chandelles
| That of thirty-six to sixty-eight candles
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| Ma France | My France |