WILL THE ENGLISH KNOW THAT THE ORIGIN OF THEIR HYMN IS AN ANAL FISTULA?

Day 2,964, 17:32 • Published in United Kingdom Argentina • by Saccopharynx
Louis XIV, “Sun King”, (1638 – 1715), standard of the absolutist monarchy, took to France to one of its more glorious times. Logically, everything was not days of “honey and roses” since during several years he was undergoing “in silence the hemorrhoids”, to be more exact and necessary an “anal fistula “. Apparently he had to undergo problems of chronic constipation that derived in an anal fistula with their corresponding pains and irritability when evacuating. He followed several treatments, proper of the time, that did not make another thing that to make worse his royal ass. Until it arrived a little while in which the situation was untenable and ordered to its personal doctor, Charles Félix de Tassy, a definitive remedy. This one decided that the only solution was an operation… but he had never done it before. So, it decided to experiment with “other” patients. After several interventions, and some that another misfortune with the “volunteers”, he decided he was ready. In 1686, the king assumed a real position not at all and Charles put hands to the work. The intervention was everything a success and after some months of recovery, the Sun King appeared mounted on his horse. The treatment of the king was reason of joy for all the town and one of the best musicians of the time, French Jean Baptiste Lully, of Italian origin, decided to compose the song/hymn “Grand Dieu sauve le Roi” (Great God save the King). Later, it would become the hymn of the monarchy until the French revolution. In 1714, G.F. Handel was visiting France where “Grand Dieu sauve le Roi” was “number one in the list of hits of the time” and he remained with that catchy music. On August 1st, George I (of the Hannover house)is named king of England, and Handel, that already had been chamber music of prince George in Hannover, moves definitively to London where their better compositions will see the light. Twisting that music he had listened in France, and doing some adjustment to it, it was offered to George I as of his own and finished becoming “God save the King”, or “God save the Queen “, the present British hymn and of other territories of the Commonwealth.