"Ça ira," or "It'll Be Great," also translated as "It'll Be Fine," is a French revolutionary song originating from Benjamin Franklin's remarks in broken French on the French Revolution. The Jacobins, demanding the end of the thieving aristocrats, created their own version with reference to how mobs of peasants would catch and hang the aristocrats from lamps in the streets, calling for the complete liquidation of the aristocrats. "La Carmagnole" or "Song of Carmagnole," is another French revolutionary song often sung in unison with Ça Ira, mocking the pompous queen Marie Antoinette and telling of the joy of the French people at bringing her and her husband to the justice of the guillotine.

Lenin and the Bolsheviks considered the Jacobins, particularly Robespierre, to be Bolsheviks ahead of their time. As such, in the Soviet Union and Communist International, great respect was paid to the brilliant deeds and ideals of Robespierre and the Jacobins. The legacy of the Jacobins was also favoured by the French Communist Party which wanted to free the working people of France from the successors to the king and his aristocrats, the French bourgeoisie, thus carrying on the great legacy of the Jacobins. At the Seventh World Congress of the Communist International, in memorium and symbolically representing the resolve of the Communists of France and the world to carry on the legacy of the Jacobins in fighting for freedom as Bolsheviks, the French delegation, led by Maurice Thorez, began singing the two classic songs of the Sans-culotte.

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