Allons enfant de la Patrie, le jour de gloire est arrivé! 'Arise children of the Fatherland, the day of glory has arrived!' These opening lines to La Marseillaise, France's famously stirring and evocative national anthem, capture perfectly the passion, fear, and frenetic energy of Republicanism's sanguinary birth on French soil. Through the violence of the Revolutions (yes, there were many) the reign of the Bourbon monarchy came to an end and modern...