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Rouget de Lisle

French army officer who wrote the national anthem La Marseillaise

Did you know?Although he wrote the most famous song of the French Revolution, his royalist sympathies nearly led to his execution during the Reign of Terror.

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (French:; 10 May 1760 – 26 June 1836) was a French army officer of the French Revolutionary Wars. Lisle is known for writing La Marseillaise and it became the French national anthem.

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