"La Marseillaise", which the good-guys sing in to drown out the Nazis in Rick's cafe, was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg after the declaration of war by France against Austria, and was originally titled "Chant de guerre pour l'Armée du Rhin" ("War Song for the Rhine Army"). It has been quoted by numerous more famous composers, including Beethoven, Verdi, Wagner, Rossini, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Shostakovich, Edward Elgar, Robert Schumann, Jacques Offenbach, and the Beatles.