The Marsillaise was created in Strasbourg. It was played for the first time on April 26, 1792 - in a hotel close to this point in the city. The idea was to salute the soldiers who were in the region. In other words, this is something like the French Fort McHenry.
It only took seven years before the song was claimed as a National Anthem. Alfred Marzolff made this sculpture in 1922. However, it (the monument, not the song) was destroyed at some point in the 1970s, and it was replaced in 1980.
Is there a better anthem anywhere? Probably not. And it's never been used to better effect than it was in the movie "Casablanca." You may know that many of the actors doing the singing in 1941 were French, and they had just seen their country overrun by the Nazis. The emotion is real.
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