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| | The 'second Marseillaise' from Surrey - 'Chant des Partisans,' composed at Coulsdon, Surrey, during the last years of ... |
 | | The melody, supposedly based on a Slavonic folk-tune, was composed by Anna Marly, a guitarist and lyricist in her twenties, of Russian parentage, but a long-time resident of Paris, who besides entertaining the troops in Britain with her songs and improvisations, was also the life and soul of many a French expatriate party. |
 | | When Henri Frenay, the head of the Resistance network known as Combat, met her in London, in 1942, she was already playing the theme that became the Chant as a party piece, with her own words. |
 | | It was Emmanuel d'Astier de Vigerie, head of another Resistance network, who took the new words back with him to France after 30 May, 1943. |
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