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
Dominique Mansuy Roget Metz, and found the state of troops and defenses lacking. He accused Roget of gross incompetence, and removed him from his post as military commander of Metz, appointing Durette in his place. Upon the Bourbon Restoration, Roget retired to Remelfing where he died on 9 January 1832. On 14 June 1804, he was named Commander of the Legion of Honor, being among the first recipients of that award. On 22 October 1810, Napoleon I declared him Baron of the Empire. Roget married Marie Françoise Josephine Bourste. They had three children: Dominique-François-Louis, Marie-Antoine-Françoise Susanne, and Napoleon-Henri-Joseph. Dominique Mansuy Roget Dominique-Mansuy Roget