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‘Vive Henri IV’ was the national anthem of the Kingdom of France between 1590-1792. It’s melody has been played since at least 1581, were it was a Christmas song. In 1589 it appears into a book of dance songs and such by Jehan Tabourot called ‘Orchesographie’. Sometime in the 1590s the tune was refitted in ‘Vive Henri IV’ with the lyrics celebrating King Henry IV and France as a whole. It was used unofficially as the national anthem up until the French Revolution, where it would be refitted into various different songs, including ‘Vive Louis XVI’ a song expressing support for the constitutional monarchy of France, and ‘Meurs Bonaparte’ a song expressing for the death of Napoleon Bonaparte as a tyrant. It returned as the unofficial anthem of France after the house of Bourbon was restored to power in 1814, as ‘Le Retour des Princes français à Paris’ with different lyrics expressing support for,the restoration of Louis XVIII as king of France. It remained until 1830, when the Bourbons we
