#chanson de l'oignon

[ic-napology]

No one:

Absolutely no one:

Not even the soldiers randomly eating onions at Marengo:

Napoleon: "THERE'S NOTHING BETTER TO EAT WHEN YOU ARE PLANNING TO STEP ON THE PATH OF GLORY"

Well I plan to illustrate this scene. At least someday.

[diagnosed-anxiety-disorder]

reminder to self to transcribe La Chanson de l'Oignon to the piano it would be funny

[captainknell]

The onion song lol

Using a dead meme because I don't know any Napoleonic songs

[thesovietonion77]

New Eclipse headcanons

so i was reading a fanfic lately(before solar died) and it was Solruin fluff(or mechanicalshark, technicaltheatre, whatever tf) and in the fanfiction, Solar speaks French. He also calls Ruin 'mah petit requin' which means 'my little shark' and it's oh so cute and i love them and i wish ruin could've found a way not to kill solar in the creator purge-

getting off track, sorry. Anyways, i ALSO made a new character(who will be shown to y'all in time), and he's one of my favorites. But he's some form of an eclipse, and he speaks french.

All of the Eclipses are theatre kids(except Sol, he just took engineering and engineering kids are dramatic asf) as we as the fandom have established, and so i've come to a conclusion with my headcanon.

All Eclipses speak some form of French. Broken or not, they all just biologically speak it. It's not even a voicebox setting, it's just remembrance. New eclipse, the one who i hate his voice/sarcasm, did not know how to speak French when he was rebuilt, but Solar randomly singing Chanson de L'oignon around the Pizzaplex(he just like me fr) kinda rubbed off on him.

So expect me to be getting better at french.

au revoir, les salopesssssss/pos

[necarion]

Came across the Frenchest piece of music I’ve ever heard. It’s a marching song from the Napoleonic wars:

History:

Before the Battle of Marengo, Napoleon found some grenadiers rubbing an onion on their bread. "Very good," he said, "there is nothing better than an onion for marching on the road to glory.

Chanson de l'Oignon

I love the onion fried in oil, I love the onion when it's good, I love the onion fried in oil, I love the onion, I love the onion. Refrain: In step, comrades, in step, comrades, In step, in step, in step, In step, comrades, in step, comrades, In step, in step, in step. Just one onion fried in oil, Just one onion turns us into lions, Just one onion fried in oil, Just one onion turns us into lions. Refrain

No onions for the Austrians, No onions for those dogs, No onions for the Austrians, No onions, no onions. Refrain Love the onion fried in oil, Love the onion, it's so tasty, Love the onion fried in oil, Love the onion, we love an onion. Refrain

[goldammerchen]

(older) intro below

GerFra fic wip (257 words). Teen and up, Nationverse.

After a marvelous night spent in Paris—in François' flat to be precise—, Ludwig is finishing his coffee, almost ready to get on the route back to Berlin in his car. Everything normal, until his cell phone starts vibrating.

"Hallo..." He puts his index in front of his mouth, staring at François, who's raising an eyebrow.

Nothing out of the ordinary, yet. François turns around, drinking from his own mug. He rolls his eyes, refusing to grasp the contents of the half conversation in German, even if at the point he does in fact, understand German. That is when, his cellphone begins ringing.

Trumpets sound. François fumbles with the phone that was at arm's length away in the table before he can end the call.

Ludwig glares at him, eyes wide open.

"No, I think it could've been my brother... Yes, he is awake at this point in the morning... Yes, I'll see you in— He ended the call."

François laughs nervously. "Is everything right...?"

"Chanson de l'Oignon? Really?"

"Nothing wrong with fried onions, my friend."

"That was a call from the defense ministry."

Oh. "So this person—?"

"Yes." Recognized the march.

For a moment neither of them find words.

"Please tell me that call wasn't from your boss," says Ludwig.

"I am afraid that it was in fact, from my boss."

Both of the nations groan at the same time, François grabbing his head while Ludwig hits his forehead with a palm open.

"Why?" asks Ludwig.

"Because he hated the last song and I got in trouble—"

[certifiedgirlthing]

And personally I enjoy stuff like these:

I wish Americans fucked with more foreign music. You don’t have to know the language to appreciate a good record. Folks in other countries listen to our music and don’t speak a lick of english. Music needs no translator

[beardedmrbean]

[just-h3nry-thoughts]

Spotify has 4 30 second ads. That's 2 minutes of advertisement. And, when you're listening to songs that are only a couple of minutes long (I think Le Chanson De L'Oignon (is that how it's spelt?) is 1:02, for example), it quickly adds up.

We went from comfortably watching 4 minute long commercial breaks to paying an extra $9.99/month to skip ads which were already skippable after 3 seconds.

[o5-17-ii]

Guess what

There's a French marching song from the Napoleonic Era that is about onions

It's called chanson de l'oignon and it's amazing

So essentially after crossing the alps Napoleon sees his Grenadiers and says "What the hell are you rubbing on that bread?" And they go "It's onion, sir." Then Bonaparte goes on to poetically say onions are good and now you have French soldiers singing about onions.

Reality is weirder than fiction

[hetalia-club]

Just found out not too long ago that every country has an official ‘war’ song. So I’ll post some links so the rest of you can listen to.

I live in America and never heard our war song so I imagine it’s the same in other places. (I’m posting these for educational purposes only and i don’t support the messages. I just think they’re neat.) America: Over There  (I like this one because it’s just like ‘be ready to get your shit rocked’) England: Grenadiers Fife and Drum (200+ years later and this still goes so hard) France:  Chanson de l'Oignon Canada: The Bold Canadian (Idk if this counts because England wrote it for them.) China:  When That Day Comes Russia: Let’s Go! Germany: Westerwaldlied Japan: Battotai (Plz note this is from Imperial Japan and most likely is no longer relevant. But I couldn't find an updated one if they even have one.) Italy: Bella Ciao (Why is this so good...I listened to it three times) Finland:  Eldankajärven jää Sweden:  När solen lyser klart på himlen blå Denmark:  Den Tapre Landsoldat Norway:  Gammel Jegermarsj Iceland:  Ólafur liljurós (Iceland does not have a military but here is a nice Viking song so they don’t feel left out) Spain:  Los Voluntarios Austria:  Under the Double Eagle Hungary:  Erdély induló (why does it give off Spiderman 2 Pizza vibes?) Poland & Lithuania-  Winged Hussars (SLAPS!)((Also it’s cute they share)) Latvia-  Zem Mūsu Kājām (ok this one is pretty good too) Estonia-  Narva Pataljon Laul (God damn all the Baltic songs are goated)

[kenobihater]

what's the most annoying song you've ever had stuck in your head? like, the one you wish you could wipe all records of it from the face of the earth just so you could once again know peace? i'll go first: mine is chanson de l'oignon bc my french teacher was a sadist apparently

[kaxenart]

"You don't need to sing a marching song, we're cavalry."

"IT'S A BANGER, JARDIN."

Chanson de l'Oignon just comes to mind from time to time.

[dailyhistorymemes]

Chanson de l'Oignon(via)

[justanotherpersonsuniverse]

hi did you know that in the napoleonic era the french made a marching song about how onion good but the austrians can't have any? it's called "Chant de l'Oignon" or "Chanson de l'Oignon" (depending on who you ask) and it actually fucks??? for some reason??? sorry i'll shut up now

Ooh?