Editing Meuse (section)

==Mention in patriotic songs==
The Meuse (''Maas'') is mentioned in the first stanza of Germany's old national anthem, the {{Lang|de|[[Deutschlandlied#Lyrics and translation|Deutschlandlied]]}}. However, since its [[Deutschlandlied#Use after World War II|re-adoption as national anthem in 1952]], only the third stanza of the ''Deutschlandlied'' has been sung as the German national anthem, the first and second stanzas being omitted. This was confirmed after German reunification in 1991 when only the third stanza was defined as the official anthem. The lyrics written in 1841 describe a then–disunited Germany with the river as its western boundary, where King [[William I of the Netherlands]] had joined the [[German Confederation]] with his [[Duchy of Limburg (1839–1867)|Duchy of Limburg]] in 1839. Though the duchy's territory officially became an integral part of the Netherlands by the 1867 [[Treaty of London (1867)|Treaty of London]], the text passage remained unchanged when the ''Deutschlandlied'' was declared the national anthem of the [[Weimar Republic]] in 1922.

The name of the rivers also forms part of the title of "[[Le Régiment de Sambre et Meuse]]", written after the French defeat in the [[Franco-Prussian War]] of 1870, and a popular patriotic song for the rest of the 19th century and into the 20th.