Rouget de Lisle, Composer of the Marseillaise, sings it for the first time.

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (b. Lons-le-Saunier, Jura on May 10, 1760; d. in Choisy-le-Roi, Seine-et-Oise on June 26, 1836) was a French composer who composed La Marseillaise, the French national anthem, in 1792. Image File history File links Rouget de Lisle, Composer of the Marseillaise, sings it for the first time. ... Image File history File links Rouget de Lisle, Composer of the Marseillaise, sings it for the first time. ... La Marseillaise is the national anthem of France. ... Lons-le-Saunier is a commune of France, préfecture (capital) of the Jura département. ... Jura is a département in the east of France named after the Jura mountains, not be confused with the Swiss canton of Jura. ... May 10 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (131st in leap years). ... 1760 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Choisy-le-Roi is a town and commune of France, in the Val-de-Marne département. ... Seine-et-Oise was a département of France encompassing the western, northern, and southern parts of the metropolitan area of Paris. ... June 26 is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 188 days remaining. ... 1836 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... La Marseillaise is the national anthem of France. ... A national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that is formally recognized by a countrys government as their states official national song. ... 1792 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

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 public dinner. The piece was at first called Chant de guerre de l'armée du Rhin ("Battle Hymn of the Rhine Army") and only received its name of Marseillaise from its adoption by the Provençal volunteers whom Barbaroux introduced into Paris, and who were prominent in the storming of the Tuileries Palace on the 10th of August. Rouget de Lisle was a moderate republican and was cashiered and thrown into prison, but the counter-revolution set him free. Look up engineer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Captain is both a nautical term and a military rank. ... A song is a relatively short musical composition for the human voice (possibly accompanied by other musical instruments), which features words (lyrics). ... This article is about the anthem La Marseillaise. A sculpture popularly called La Marseillaise is part of the sculptural programme of the Arc de Triomphe. ... City motto: – City proper (commune) Région Alsace Département Bas-Rhin (67) Mayor Fabienne Keller (UMP) (since 2001) Area 78. ... At 1,320 kilometres (820 miles) and an average discharge of more than 2,000 cubic meters per second, the Rhine (German Rhein, French Rhin, Dutch Rijn, Romansch: Rein, Italian: Reno) is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe. ... Provence is a former Roman province and is now a region of southeastern France, located on the Mediterranean Sea adjacent to Frances border with Italy. ... Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux (1767 - 1794) was a French revolutionist Barbaroux was educated at first by the Oratorians of Marseille, then studied law, and became a successful advocate. ... The neutrality and factual accuracy of this article are disputed. ... Tuileries Palace before 1871 - View from the Louvre courtyard Up to 1871 the Tuileries Palace was a palace in Paris, France, on the right bank of the River Seine. ... On August 10, 1792, during the French Revolution, a mob – with the backing of a new municipal government of Paris that came to be known as the insurrectionary Paris Commune – besieged the Tuileries palace. ... Republicanism is the idea of a nation being governed as a republic. ...

Rouget de Lisle wrote a few other songs of the same kind as the "Marseillaise", and in 1825 he published Chants français ("French Songs"), in which he set to music fifty songs by various authors. His Essais en vers et en prose ("Attempts in Verse and Prose", 1797) contains the "Marseillaise", a prose tale of the sentimental kind called "Adelaide et Monville", and some occasional poems. 1825 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1797 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Prose blah blah blahProse generally lacks the formal structure of meter or rhyme that is often found in poetry. ... Poetry (ancient Greek: poieo = create) is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. ...

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• This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, a publication in the public domain.