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 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