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
Leo Roget amateur fights, his first professional fight, at cruiserweight, was to have been against Mitch Mitchell at York Hall on 16 November 2013. Due to neck and back injuries suffered by Roget in training, the fight was postponed until 7 December 2013. Roget lost 39–38 on points and announced his retirement in September 2014. Roget is of Trinidad and Tobagan descent on his father's side. After retiring from football in 2006, he "lived in Spain for a year and got fat and out of condition and was an absolute disgrace. After that I got into personal training". He subsequently set himself