Si la France [English translation]

If France married herself

If one day she finally said to herself "I love you"

She would invent the dance

Who would marry the world

If France was kissed one day, who knows?

For the rose and the lilacs in harmony

The left and right hand finally united

The blueberries by the Lily of the Valley

This bouquet is young and gay

Which marries all the colours

Among the flowers

We must learn to live together

In need or in kisses

With your neighbours, your cousins, your in-laws

Your adopted children, opposite

You, the eternal virgin mother

Who would like to sleep with all the Earth

What eternal oaths

With honeymoons

To end in a headbutt after the party

Poor Joan1, Lorraine2, and Henry IV3

Vercingetorix4 by whom were you defeated?

Where are the friends hiding?

It's Bartholomew the Apostle5,

And France, clearly beheaded

Woman who turns your arms against you

At the heart of the neighborhood fights

Sometimes all you have left is your tears

To refind your friendship

If France married herself

If one day she finally said to herself "I love you"

She would invent the dance

Who would marry the world

If France was kissed one day, who knows?

1. Joan of Arc2. The region of France which has been through many wars and was annexed to Germany for a long time3. French king who brought prosperity to Paris and was often regarded as an ideal monarch4. king and chieftain of the Arverni tribe who united the Gauls in a revolt against Roman forces5. famous for being decapitated