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This country's national anthem was once described in a certain 19th century book of 'memoirs' that it was written by someone else and stolen by a famous composer. Which anthem is it, who apparently stole it, and what is facinating about the 'memoirs'?
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Well, yes, it is "God Save The Queen", as it was outlandishly published in the 19th-century forgery, the 'Souvenirs of the Marquise de Créquy'. Suggested to be written by Lully for Louis XIV to celebrate a royal fistula healing, then pirated by Handel.
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