The societies for the rights of authors did not exist in the time of Rouget de Lisle and that is sad for the author of this «tube» more than 200 hundred years ago. Imprisoned in Saint Pélagie for a debt of FFC 500, he only came out thanks to the help of a friend, the singer Beranger then blind, half paralysed and homeless, his friends in 1830 managed to obtain a meagre living for him from Louis Philippe.