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 Leo Roget Leo Thomas Earl Roget (born 1 August 1977) is a retired English football defender made over 120 appearances in the Football League for Southend United. He also played league football for Oxford United, Stockport County, Brentford, Rushden & Diamonds, Reading and was noted for his "pace, mobility and strength in the air". A "bad boy" player, Roget received 60 yellow cards and was sent off seven times during his professional career. He fought one professional bout as a boxer in December 2013. A defender, Roget joined Southend United as a schoolboy in 1990, at the age of 13.