At Rick's Cafe Americain in Casablanca, nasty Nazi Major Strasser (Conrad Veidt) leads the stolid German soliders in a patriotic hymn. Resistance fighter Paul Henreid ("Victor Lazlo") find this intolerable and commands the band to play the Marseillaise. It's Rick's place, so the band leader looks at Rick (Humphrey Bogart), who nods his head, bemused, impressed. Go ahead. I won't stop you. The Marseillaise drowns out the German voices. Ingrid Bergman looks radiant. She is Mrs. Victor Lazlo but she and Rick will "always have Paris."
La Marseillaise
Allons enfants de la Patrie
Le jour de gloire est arrivé
Contre nous de la tyrannie
L'étendard sanglant est levé (2)
Entendez vous dans les campagnes
Mugir ces féroces soldats
Ils viennent jusque dans vos bras,
Egorger vos fils, vos compagnes
Aux armes citoyens! Formez vos bataillons!
Marchons, marchons,
Qu'un sang impur abreuve nos sillons
-- Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1792)
