Philippe Friedrich Dietrich 1790 to August 1792. At his home during a dinner in honor of the officers of the garrison of Strasbourg he asked the Captain Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, stationed in his city, to write the Song the Army of the Rhine, future "La Marseillaise". Rouget de l'Isle composed the song in the night of 24–25 April 1792. According to sources, Dietrich would have sung the song himself, accompanied on the piano by his wife, for he was very good musician. Baron Dietrich knew the Captain Rouget de l'Isle to be like him, a Freemason and attend the same Masonic
Heather De Lisle Heather De Lisle Heather Anne De Lisle (born August 17, 1976 in Landstuhl, West Germany) is an American television presenter at the international broadcaster Deutsche Welle and a radio correspondent for ABC News. De Lisle is the daughter of radio disc jockey Rik De Lisle. At the age of 15, she hosted her first radio broadcast on American Forces Network (Berlin). She studied at the University of Maryland", and attended the SRT – School for Broadcast Technology" (now known as the ARD-ZDF Media Academy) in Nuremberg. Since 1995 she has worked freelance for Deutsche Welle, first presenting the weather, then