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
Vanessa de Lisle Vanessa de Lisle Vanessa de Lisle is a British fashion journalist. She was fashion editor for "Harpers & Queen" for 12 years, and then worked for British "Vogue". As a representative of "Harpers & Queen", she was the fashion journalist asked to choose the Dress of the Year for 1981, for which she picked a printed silk dress by Karl Lagerfeld at Chloé, with shoes by Walter Steiger and a chunky necklace by Ugo Correani. In 1996, de Lisle was a consultant on fashion for the House of Fraser chain. As of the 2010s she is working as a stylist