Anna Marly (1917–2006), Maurice Druon (1918–2009) and Joseph Kessel (1898–1979), Le chant de la libération: le chant des partisans: paroles de Maurice Druon et Joseph Kessel; musique de Anna Marly
Paris: Éditions Raoul Breton, [1945]
The ‘Chant des Partisans’, called the anthem of the French Resistance, was the most popular Free French song and after the war was proposed as a new national anthem. The singer Anna Marly had heard a Russian song which inspired her, and Druon and Kessel wrote the lyrics. The subject of the song is the struggle for liberation but there is also a Communist message calling workers and peasants to rise up.
