HIGHWAY HISTORY
ROUTE DE LA MARSEILLAISE. After the “Route Napoleon,” as the roads traversed by Napoleon on his triumphal return from Elba have been named, France is to have its “Route de la Marseillaise.” The name of Route de la Marseillaise will be given to those roads of France which the soldiers of the Revolution tramped along singing the Marseillaise, on their way from the Mediterranean port to Paris, in 1792. The name of Marseillaise was given to the national hymn of France, originally entitled the March of the Army of the Rhine, because of its being sung by these revolutionaries from Marseilles.
A proposal has been put forward to set up signs along the way carrying a design of a Phrygian bonnet. The very carriage in which Napoleon covered part of the way to Paris on his return from Elba is to be seen in the museum of vehicles at Compiegne, where there is also the small landaulet used by Queen Victoria when a frequent visitor to the Riviera.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 July 1938, Page 9
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170HIGHWAY HISTORY Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 July 1938, Page 9
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