Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle was a French army officer of the French Revolutionary Wars.[1][2]
In 1792, while he was garrisoned in Strasbourg and while France declared war on Austria, he wrote and composed the national anthem of France (then the First Republic), "La Marseillaise", which was originally titled "Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin".[3]
Career[]
Rouget de Lisle was an engineer in the army who attained the rank of captain. He was a royalist (like his father). A year after he wrote The Marseillaise, he was cashiered and imprisoned, and almost got killed by a guillotine. He was then freed during the Thermidorian Reaction.[4]
References[]
- ↑ Brian N. Morton, Donald C. Spinelli, Beaumarchais and the American Revolution,Lexington Books, 2003, p. 303. ISBN: 9780739104682
- ↑ Chisholm, 1911
- ↑ The New York Times Current History: The European War, Volume 16, 1918. p. 200.
- ↑ Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Richard Stockton, Nathan Haskell Dole, Julian Hawthorne, Caroline Ticknor, The World's Great Masterpieces. American literary society, 1901, p. 9577.