On This Day April 24

On April 24, 1792 Dietrich, Mayor of Strasbourg, remarked that the French soldiers had no spirited marching song. That night, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, a young captain of engineers, picked up his violin and composed the words and music of a stirring song. De Lisle sung his tune for the first time during a patriotic banquet at Dietrich's home. We now know it as the famous France national anthem  "La Marseillaise."

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