{"id":15787,"date":"2012-07-22T22:47:32","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T20:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=15787"},"modified":"2017-10-20T13:17:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T11:17:29","slug":"belgians-celebrate-national-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/belgians-celebrate-national-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgians Celebrate National Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday, July 21st, Belgians of all stripers celebrated their<em> F\u00eate nationale<\/em> (national holiday)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">An occasion for us to salute Belgium here on the Transparent French Blog! A few years ago, Yves Leterme, ex-Prime Minister of<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/the-first-hit-of-french-rap-early-90s-mais-vous-etes-fous-oh-oui-are-you-crazy-oh-yeah\/\">La Belgique<\/a> <\/em>(Belgium) was asked by a journalist, &#8220;\u00e0 l&#8217;improviste&#8221; (unexpectedly),\u00a0if he knew the lyrics of <em>l&#8217;hymne national <\/em>(national hymn)\u00a0of his country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The answer of Leterme?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He started singing <em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/la-marseillaise-and-la-reintegration-de-lhistoire\/\">la Marseillaise<\/a><\/em>,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">the French national anthem!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em> * * *<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gaffe Yves Leterme sur l&#039;hymne national belge\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ABTR2Xe_sGw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The video showing Leterme<em>\u00a0<\/em><em>&#8220;en flagrant d\u00e9lit&#8221; <\/em> (or &#8220;red-handed&#8221;, if you will)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>* * *<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"La Braban\u00e7onne\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1Low3ByYigQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em> Noble Belgique! \u00d4 M\u00e8re ch\u00e9rie! A toi nos coeurs, \u00e0 toi nos bras A toi notre sang, \u00f4 Patrie Nous le jurons, tous, tu vivras Tu vivras, toujours grande et belle Et ton invincible unit\u00e9 Aura pour devise immortelle Le Roi, la Loi, la Libert\u00e9<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Le Roi, la Loi, la Libert\u00e9<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Le Roi, la Loi, la Libert\u00e9<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">* La version anglaise (The\u00a0<strong>English version<\/strong>):<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dd>O\u00a0<strong>Belgium<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; O mother dear &#8211;<\/dd>\n<dd><\/dd>\n<dd>To you we stretch our hearts and arms,<\/dd>\n<dd><\/dd>\n<dd>With blood to spill for you, O fatherland!<\/dd>\n<dd><\/dd>\n<dd>We swear with one cry &#8211; You shall live!<\/dd>\n<dd><\/dd>\n<dd>You shall live, so great and beautiful,<\/dd>\n<dd><\/dd>\n<dd>And your invincible unity<\/dd>\n<dd><\/dd>\n<dd>Shall have for device immortal &#8211;<\/dd>\n<dd><\/dd>\n<dd>The King, and Law, and Liberty!<\/dd>\n<dd><\/dd>\n<dd>Shall have for device immortal &#8211;<\/dd>\n<dd><\/dd>\n<dd>The King, and Law, and Liberty!<\/dd>\n<dd><\/dd>\n<dd>The King, and Law, and Liberty!<\/dd>\n<dd><\/dd>\n<dd>The King, and Law, and Liberty!<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday, July 21st, Belgians of all stripers celebrated their F\u00eate nationale (national holiday) An occasion for us to salute Belgium here on the Transparent French Blog! A few years ago, Yves Leterme, ex-Prime Minister of La Belgique (Belgium) was asked by a journalist, &#8220;\u00e0 l&#8217;improviste&#8221; (unexpectedly),\u00a0if he knew the lyrics of l&#8217;hymne national (national&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/belgians-celebrate-national-holiday\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[8580,229002,9217,55011],"class_list":["post-15787","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture","category-vocabulary","tag-belgium","tag-belgium-national-holiday","tag-la-belgique","tag-la-brabanconne"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15787"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28397,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15787\/revisions\/28397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}