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
Melchior de Lisle Melchior de Lisle Melchior de Lisle (1908-16 August 1977) was a French entomologist. He specialised in Coleoptera Lucanidae. A biography was written by Jean-Pierre Lacroix In 1933 he marries Christiane Frommer who will hold in Paris a renowned music lounge. He was a technician of value, an alumnus of the École polytechnique. In Cameroon he manages works of infrastructure (bridges), on returning to Paris he is a headmaster of an engineering school. He is an excellent pianist. During his stay in Cameroon, he is interested in cetonids, the customs of which he observes and he describes new forms or new