Odd, isn't it? The man who wrote it, Rouget de Lisle, came from the North of France, and the enemies referred to in the song were attacking the North. But the song was first adopted as a march by the...
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle wrote the music and lyrics in 1792 and it became the National Anthem of France in 1795.
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