Surname: Rouget de Lisle Forename(s): Claude Joseph Rouget b. 10 May 1760. d. 26 June 1836. Nationality: French. VIAF.
Poet, composer, and French army engineer. Author of Chant de Guerre pour Larmée du Rhin (1792), which eventually became known as La Marseillaise and was adopted as the French national anthem in 1879. Biographical information:
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