Whakakiia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I puta mai te tau 1789 ki te French Revolution me te wehenga tuatahi o Alsace ki nga rohe o Haut- me Bas-Rhin. I whai wāhi kaha nga Alsatians ki te French Revolution. I te 21 o Hōngongoi 1789, i muri i te whiwhinga o nga korero mo te whakaekenga o te Bastille i Paris, ka whakaekehia e te tini o nga tangata te whare taone nui o Strasbourg, ka akiaki i nga kaiwhakahaere o te taone ki te rere me te whakamutu i te punaha feudal i Alsace. I te tau 1792, i hangaia e Rouget de Lisle i Strasbourg te waiata whakatere Revolutionary "La Marseillaise" (hei "Marching song for the Army of the Rhine"), i muri mai ka waiho hei waiata a France. I whakatangihia a "La Marseillaise" mo te wa tuatahi i te Paenga-whawha o taua tau i mua i te koromatua o Strasbourg Philippe-Frédéric de Dietrich. Ko ētahi o ngā hōia rongonui o te French Revolution i ahu mai hoki i Alsace, ko Kellermann, te toa o
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