and lectures that were televised between 1959 and 1972). The demonstrators in Tiananmen Square chanted political slogans to the tune of "Frère Jacques". There is a strong oral tradition among children in China, Vietnam and other places in Asia of passing on songs with their own lyrics, sung to the tune of "Frère Jacques". Frère Jacques is the name of a chain of franchised French restaurants in the UK and the name of a French restaurant in the Murray Hill section of New York City. Les Frères Jacques is the name of a French restaurant in Dublin. Ron Haselden, a British artist living in the French town of Brizard, in Brittany, has produced an interactive multimedia piece featuring "Frère Jacques" in collaboration with Peter Cusack. The Chinese song "Dadao lie qiang" ("Cut down the great powers", or rather: "Let's beat together the great powers", also known as 'The "Revolution of the Citizens" Song') celebrates the cooperation in China in the 1920s of Mao Zedong's Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang against warlords and imperialist powers, and is sung to the tune of "Frère Jacques". References External links A "Frère Jacques" interactive and multilingual collection on video Multiple versions of the song with sheet music Text in many languages, melody, ingeb.org 19th-century songs French folk songs Traditional children's songs French children's songs Lullabies Rounds (music) Songwriter unknown French nursery rhymes Year of song unknown Songs about sleep French-language songs Songs about fictional male characters