The Marseillaise or Departure of the volunteers of 1792 (F. Rude) Triumphal arch of Star in Paris.
The Battle song for the army of the Rhine, required by the mayor of Strasbourg, Dietrich, on the desire of the Kellermann General, of the genious Mullet captain of Lisle, poet and musician at his hours, was composed by this one in Strasbourg April 1792 and was sung at Dietrich, where it obtained a success inouï. Very quickly, it was known through France. The evening of June 22, 1792, in the David delicatessen, to the 25 street Thubaneau in Marseilles, the young person François Mireur, delegated Montpelliéraine Company of the " Friends of the Constitution ", (future General, killed in Egypt in 1798) in company of his/her friend, Henri Goguet, sang, for the first time, at the end of a patriotic banquet offered to the volunteers of the national guard leaving for Paris, this song. During all the course, those entonnèrent the anthem. They sang it while emerging, July 30, drum beating, place of the Bastille. There Marseillaise - thus it was called from now on - was going to ignite the volunteers of year II. It became the national anthem of the French by the decree of the 26 messidor year III (July 14, 1795), title which will be confirmed to him in 1879 by IIIème République.
At that time, the armies of the Republic raised Tricolours. From which did the three colors come, unknown factors under Ancien Régime? The marquis of " La Fayette " intercalated, October 4, 1789, the royal white, inspired of the shirt of the Blessed Virgin preserved in Chartres, between the two colors of the Town of Paris: the blue of the " capâ " of Martin saint and red of the streamer of Denis saint . For the revolutionists, the tricolour rosette became the badge of patriotism and the three colors were spread out soon over the standards. In the armies of the Republic, each battalion had its flag, whose models varied. The three colors, divided into geometrical drawings (often by horizontal tapes), were decorated currencies (French Republic, Vaincre or to die, etc...) as well as revolutionary attributes (beam of lictor, Phrygian cap, spade).
