La Marseillaise

La Marseillaise, French national anthem, the words and tune of which were written in 1792, by the French army engineer Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, in Strasbourg. It got its name La marseillaise after it was adopted by the troops from Marseille who took part in the storming of the Tuileries in Paris in the French Revolution. Designated the national anthem on July 14, 1792, it was banned twice in the 19th century for its revolutionary associations.