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
Ambrose Lisle March Phillipps De Lisle took exception to de Lisle's treatise "On the Future Unity of Christendom". The matter was referred to Rome and was finally settled by a papal rescript addressed "Ad omnes episcopos Angliæ", dated 16 September 1864, which condemned the association and directed the bishops to take steps to prevent Catholics from joining it. This was a great blow to de Lisle, who considered that "the authorities had been deceived by a false relation of facts". He however withdrew his name from the A.P.U.C. "under protest, as an act of submission to the Holy See". The ground on which the association was