Your bell towers reach towards the sky
In the middle of a magic summer eve
Your astonishing cathedral
Stands grandly out of the past
Bayeux
Surrounded by mystifying monasteries
Your Episcopal palace illuminates
Your medieval lines and your grandeur
Welcomed by a night waltz
A legendary tapestry
Relates the rise of a Normand
Turned king of England
One William the Conqueror
Bayeux
Historical city full of splendor
At the heart of our Normandy
Your glory is recognized everywhere
From century to century to the present
First French town liberated
Bayeux honors every year
The courageous veterans
The great liberators
Bayeux
Ring the bells, ring in peace
English is heard on your streets
Resounding the light of your past
And a newborn fraternity
Ring the bells, ring in peace
Proclaimed by De Gaulle himself
Expressing the shared joy
Of this reclaimed liberty