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several sieges

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Mainz had had to survive several sieges! so we have to go in more detail! --Symposiarch 10:30, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ça ira

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Goethe, who witnessed the siege, reported the French soldiers singing mostly Ça ira and not the Marseillaise, when they left Mainz. Apparently the Marseillaise wasn't the principal patriotic song yet. 85.180.126.38 (talk) 10:10, 29 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]