Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle was a French army officer of the French Revolutionary Wars. Lisle is known for writing La Marseillaise and it became the French national anthem.
Rouget de Lisle in 1835
Rouget de Lisle sings la Marseillaise for the first time, by Isidore Pils
Statue of Rouget de Lisle in Lons-le-Saunier, France.
Rouget de Lisle's cenotaph in Choisy-le-Roi, France.
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"La Marseillaise" is the national anthem of France. It was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg after the First French Republic declared war against Austria, and was original
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
…Joseph Rouget de Lisle (French: ; 10 May 1760 – 26 June 1836) was a French army officer of the French Revolutionary Wars. Lisle is known for writing La Marseillaise and it became the French national anthem. Rouget de Lisle was born at Lons-le-Saunier, reputedly on a market day. His parents lived in the neighbouring…
The Marseillais volunteers departing, sculpted on the Arc de Triomphe