Au Palais Royal [English translation]

Danton Danton it's Danton

Glory to these ladies

Who pay for my ugliness

To the delight of my soul

Glory to the scoundrels

Who, on street corners, scare

These cowards of Versailles

In the royal palace jesters are kings

In the royal palace pleasures make the law

It takes boldness and more boldness

For the citizens down there

It will be fine*

A man loses his life for

A woman's smile (ye-ye-ye-ye-yeye)

In the swindlers' paradise

In gambling halls

The bourgeois rub shoulders with the infamous (ye-ye-ye-ye-yeye)

And they tear each other's guts out over a word

In the royal palace jesters are kings

In the royal palace pleasures make the law

It takes boldness and more boldness

To the citizens down there

Ha! ha! ha!

Danton is in the house

It will be fine

Glory to our dreams

Which lie sleeping under misery

Which our anger raises up

Glory to this day

When the country is waking up

Look, it is finally our turn

In the royal palace jesters are kings

In the royal palace pleasures make the law

It takes boldness and more boldness

For the citizens down there

Boldness and still more boldness

It will be fine