Music: French Wartime Songs; Music: French Wartime Songs. 2 minute read. TIME. April 15, 1940 12:00 AM GMT-5. ... Sentiments of the song: The general who commands our army is a real daddy to all ...

How the Union Army’s Beloved Marching Song Became a French Christmas Favorite An abolitionist standard, ... French speakers sing “Glory, Alleluia” thanks, in part, to Ethel Kennedy, Elvis, ...

In 1792 Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, a captain in the French army, composed the song after Austrian and Prussian troops invaded France in an attempt to quell the revolution.

Claude-Joseph Rouget, who was a French army officer, came up with the with the song in a few hours, calling it: ‘Chant de guerre pour l’Armée du Rhin’ (War Song for the Rhine Army).

The French national anthem, entitled La Marseillaise, was composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle during the French Revolution, ... (War Song for the Army of the Rhine), ...