Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760 - 1836) France Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (born May 10, 1760 in Lons-le-Saunier, Jura; died June 26, 1836 in Choisy-le-Roi, Seine-et-Oise) was a French composer who in 1792 wrote La Marseillaise, the French national anthem.
Rouget de Lisle wrote a few other songs of the same kind as the Marseillaise and in 1825 he published Chants français (French Songs) in which he set to music fifty songs by various authors. His Essais en vers et en prose (Attempts in Verse and Prose, 1797) contains the Marseillaise; a prose tale Adelaide et Monville of the sentimental kind; and some occasional poems.
His ashes were transferred from Choisy-le-Roi cemetery to the Invalides on 14 July 1915, during World War I. (Hide extended text)...(Read all) Source : Wikipedia
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