Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle has immortalized him, "La Marseillaise", was composed at Strasbourg, where Rouget de Lisle was garrisoned in April 1792. France had just declared war on Austria, and the mayor of Strasbourg, baron Philippe-Frédéric de Dietrich, held a dinner for the officers of the garrison, at which he lamented that France had no national anthem. Rouget de Lisle returned to his quarters and wrote the words in a fit of patriotic excitement. The piece was at first called "Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin" ("War Song for the Army of the Rhine") and only received its name of "Marseillaise" from its
Claude de Seyssel the 16th century. Later French thinkers adopted a different stance and distanced themselves from his beliefs. He was made Archbishop of Turin, in 1517, through the king's influence. He also wrote on the Salic law, composed propaganda after the French victory over the Venetians, and worked as a translator of ancient historians, including Appianus of Alexandria. Claude de Seyssel Claude de Seyssel ("Italian:Claudio di Seyssel") (died 1520) was a Savoyard jurist and humanist, now known for his political writings. He wrote "La Grande Monarchie de France" as a supporter of the French crown, in the person of Louis XII. Written