“Ah ca Ira!” WE HANGEN ZE OP in het museum!
“Ah ca Ira!” WE HANG THEM in the museum!
State visit of Dutch royals to France & François Hollande with a visit to the Louvre where royals are hung en masse on the walls…
Let me remind you of the song that comes with it:
“Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira
Ah! It’ll be fine, It’ll be fine, It’ll be fine
les aristocrates à la lanterne!
aristocrats to the lamp-post
Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira
Ah! It’ll be fine, It’ll be fine, It’ll be fine
les aristocrates on les pendra!
the aristocrats, we’ll hang them!”
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Sadly to hang a painting in French uses the verb ‘accrocher’ and not ‘pendre’, so my wordplay only works in Dutch & English.
– any French kid knows the song as they learn it in school.
Here a nice ‘sans-culotte’ version sung by Edith Piaff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzu01gO3pi4
the limping messenger 
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