And the schools play a major role in this and thus all these

在这里面学校扮演了主要角色所以这些说着
kids who grew up speaking patois or Provencal or Gascon--

方言或者普罗旺斯语或者加斯科涅语的孩子们
I forgot Gascon, around Bordeaux,

我把加斯科涅语忘了在波尔多附近
they can sing the Marseillaise in acceptable French

他们操着勉强能接受的法语唱着马赛曲
as they march off to be slaughtered.

上前线等待被屠杀
When do peasants become Frenchman, as someone posed.

有人问什么时候农民变成法国人了
And it's an interesting question,

这个问题很有意思
because it tells you a lot about regional identity

因为从这里能看出很多有关地区身份
and about national identity. And the role of the schools is

和国家身份的东西学校在期中的角色
important in that because what happens is that the Virgin Mary

也很重要因为圣母玛利亚
gets elbowed off the walls by Marianne,

被玛利亚娜一把推下神坛
the female image of the republic, and that,

她是共和国的形象