Historical Museum of the City of Strasbourg
Painted scene of a night the Marseillaise was first sung, among relief maps and centuries of city artifacts.
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This guide to the Historical Museum of the City of Strasbourg centers on Isidore Pils's 1849 painting of a single night in 1792, when mayor Philippe-Frederic de Dietrich asked his houseguest, a young army captain named Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, to write a marching song for troops leaving for war. Accounts differ on exactly how that evening unfolded and who sang the result first. Within days the tune was being drilled into soldiers marching out through Strasbourg's gates. Stand close to the canvas to catch the candlelight on the raised hand at the piano.
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