"Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (French: [klod ʒɔzɛf ʁuʒɛ d(ə) lil]), sometimes spelled de l´Isle or de Lile (10 May 1760 – 26 June 1836), was a ...
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French army officer of the French Revolutionary Wars. He is known for writing the words and music of the Chant de guerre pour l´armée du Rhin in 1792, which would later be known as La Marseillaise and become the French national anthem." - (en.wikipedia.org 31.01.2020)