Rouget de Lisle composes La Marseillaise
1792 · Work
In one night in Strasbourg, an army engineer writes a war song for the Rhine army; volunteers from Marseille sing it marching into Paris that summer, and it takes their name. Revolutionary France's anthem — and eventually the world's template for one.
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