PIERRE WEIL

BIOGRAPHIC SUMMARY

The Marseillaise of Peace

Under the influence of an intuition that told him the many national anthems to be among the strongest expressions of the Violence Culture and of wars, as it was criticized by Federico Maior, Pierre Weil, in 1986, 10 years before this declaration by the UNESCO General-Director, he wrote a new Marseillaise, which he calls the Planet Anthem or the Peace Marseillaise. He sends a copy of it to Robert Muller who answers him with an expression of enthusiasm and who declares that he had, himself, launched a movement for the reviewing of the national anthems. Robert Muller sings the new Marseillaise at the UM Headquarters, with a group of friends and trusts to give its text to the chorus of the United Nations, for performance. On his side, Pierre Weil, in Strasbourg, at some steps from the place where Rouget de Lisles sang his anthem for the first time, Pierre Weil incites the singing of the new text to about one thousand participants of an international congress on transpersonal psychology. Some days later the text was published by L'Express Magazine.

Now that Pierre Weil's dream of a united Europe became a reality, one can easily see how appropriate and suitable it is to change the texts of countless national anthems, harmonising them with the fraternal spirit that presided the organisation of Europe. Robert Muller and Pierre Weil are united towards the implementation of this idea.

To end, the reader can find in annex, the complete text of the Peace Marseillaise, as a poetic and vivid expression of the Peace Spirit which lives in the soul of Pierre Weil.