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Poet(s)

Dumas, Alexandre
Maquet, Auguste

Credits

Translator

Unsigned

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

The Nineteenth Century 26:152, 635–636, October 1889.

First line

By the voice of the gun that calls us

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

Original language

French

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Notes and attribution research

Cited in Laura Alexandrine Smith’s essay On Some War Songs of Europe (pp. 628-650). (HR) The poem appears unsigned in the essay. Source for authorship is Chasons Nationales et Populaires de France (GoogleB ooks), where the poem appears under the title Les Girondins. (CE)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 8320

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

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