Le mémorial de la Marseillaise

On Thursday, March 3, 2011 was inaugurated Marseille, the Memorial of the Marseillaise. On April 25, 1792 a young officer of Engineers Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle composed Military to galvanize a song the French troops who fought against Austria on the Rhine front. The "Song of the Rhine Army" was interpreted by Francois Mireur, a physician from Montpellier come to bring together volunteers from Montpellier During their journey through France so did they know "The song of the Rhine Army" known as rapid La Marseillaise in their honor. Today there are hundreds versions of what will become the anthem National of France in 1879. The agreement had yet enacted National Anthem July 14, 1795. It was banned by Napoleon, Louis XVIII, and Napoleon III.