Tantième (1947–1966) was a French Thoroughbred horse racing champion and prominent sire who twice won the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, France's most prestigious horse race. He also won several other important conditions races including the Grand Critérium in 1949, the Poule d'Essai des Poulains, Prix Lupin and his first Arc de Triomphe in 1950. Racing as a four-year-old, in 1951 Tantième won the Prix Ganay plus his second Arc de Triomphe and in England he captured the Coronation Cup.
After winning twelve of his fifteen races, Tantième was retired to stand at stud at François Dupre's Haras d'Ouilly where he became the Champion French Sire of 1962 and 1965. A few of the horses Tantième sired are:
Ancient are your miracles
(Not solving, deceiving)
There is no truth beyond your words
(Just catching, misleading)
Denial of individuals
(Your teaching, they're bleeding)
Your power is not based on any facts
Now take a look at us
(We are the legion)
Try to blind us
We'll think for ourselves
Congratulations to your thousand years old Reich
But we aproach the dusk of your reign
Now and forever I just hope that
Freedom of mind will come to rule again
Now take a look at us
(We are the legion)
Try to blind us
We'll think for ourselves
Did you think we are deaf, dumb and blind?
Do you want to see your children starve in poverty
No? Why do you then still stick to your rules of pregnancy?
Forbidding medical improvements
To those who are dying
Now take a look at us
(We are the legion)
Because of believing you
Our name is legion
Cause we are many
Our name is legion
Because we are your demise