Tuhia he tomokanga mō tēnei wāhanga - I puta mai te tau 1789 i te Wīwī Wīwī, ā, ko te wehenga tuatahi o Alsace ki ngā 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 te rongo mo te whakaekenga o te Bastille
I Paris, ka whakaekehia e te mano o nga tangata te whare taone o Strasbourg, ka akiaki i nga kaiwhakahaere o te taone ki te rere me te tohu i te mutunga o 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 etahi o nga rangatira rongonui o te French Revolution i ahu mai i Alsace, ko Kellermann, te toa o Valmy, ko Kléber, nana i arahi nga ope o te French Republic i Vendée me Westermann, i whawhai ano hoki i te Vendée.