Rouget de Lisle


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Rouget de Lisle

Claude Joseph . 1760--1836, French army officer: composer of the Marseillaise (1792), the French national anthem
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At the mayor's office, musician-soldier Claude- Joseph Rouget de Lisle performed his composition "La Marseillaise" for the first time in 1792.
The City of Roads - Often in the Crossfire
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760 - 1836), an artillery officer in the garrison at Strasbourg, composed both the words and music (April 24, 1792), with the title " Chant de guerre pour l ' arme du Rhin.
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