Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760 - 1836)
France
FranceClaude 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 entered the army as an engineer and attained the rank of captain. The song that has immortalised him, the Marseillaise, was composed at Strasbourg, where Rouget de Lisle was quartered in April 1792. He wrote both words and music in a fit of patriotic excitement after a ... (Read all)
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Rouget de Lisle entered the army as an engineer and attained the rank of captain. The song that has immortalised him, the Marseillaise, was composed at Strasbourg, where Rouget de Lisle was quartered in April 1792. He wrote both words and music in a fit of patriotic excitement after a ... (Read all)
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