Philippe Friedrich Dietrich 1790 to August 1792. At his home during a dinner in honor of the officers of the garrison of Strasbourg he asked the Captain Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, stationed in his city, to write the Song the Army of the Rhine, future "La Marseillaise". Rouget de l'Isle composed the song in the night of 24–25 April 1792. According to sources, Dietrich would have sung the song himself, accompanied on the piano by his wife, for he was very good musician. Baron Dietrich knew the Captain Rouget de l'Isle to be like him, a Freemason and attend the same Masonic
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