La Marseillaise

Written for the Army of the Rhine in 1792, named for the men of Marseille who sang it into Paris.

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"La Marseillaise" is the national anthem of France. Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle wrote it in Strasbourg in 1792, after the First French Republic declared war on Austria, under the title "Chant de Guerre pour l'Armée du Rhin" (War Song for the Army of the Rhine). The National Convention adopted it as the Republic's anthem in 1795. Its nickname comes from the volunteer Fédérés from Marseille who sang it as they marched on Paris. The melody and words have made it a song of revolution far beyond France, and it has been quoted in many classical and popular works.