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
Heather De Lisle only American journalist in Germany who is committed to the Republican Party"". In September 2010 De Lisle published her first book, the German-language "Amiland", named for a slang term for the U.S., in which she took issue with the uncritical reception given Barack Obama in Germany and defended the U.S. against various stereotypes. She lives in Berlin, is married with a German and is mother of a son. 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