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 Dominique Mansuy Roget Dominique-Mansuy Roget de Belloquet, knight and later baron Belloguet (20 October 1760 – 9 January 1832), died at Rémelfing by Sarreguemines, Moselle, was a general of division of the French First Empire. He embraced a military career at the age of 17, and progressed through the ranks of service. In 1808, he was appointed to the 3rd Division in Metz, where he remained until his retirement in 1814. He was among the first recipients of the Legion of Honor in 1804. Born on 20 October 1760 at Lorry-Devant-le-Pont, in the Kingdom of France, Roget entered military service