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
Beauvoir De Lisle Beauvoir De Lisle General Sir Henry de Beauvoir De Lisle, (27 July 1864 – 16 July 1955) was a British Army General who served in the Second Boer War and World War I. Born in Guernsey and educated in Jersey, De Lisle was commissioned into the 2nd Bn Durham Light Infantry in 1883. He saw service with the Mounted Infantry in Egypt between 1885 and 1886, being awarded his DSO there, and was promoted to the rank of captain on 1 October 1891. He studied at the Staff College in 1899 before returning to the Mounted Infantry when he was