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
Claude de Bectoz Claude de Bectoz Claude de Bectoz (1490–1547) was a French writer and philosopher of the Renaissance. Both her mother, Michelette de Salvaing, and father, Jacques de Bactoz, were from well-known families in the Dauphiné. Denys Fauchier taught her to write Latin and verse. Claude would later write prose and verse in both French and Italian. Claude became famous as a writer and intellectual and corresponded with many learned people, as well as with Queen Marguerite of Navarre and King Francis I of France. After she became abbess of the Monastery Saint Honorat in Tarascon in 1542, Marguerite and Francis visited