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Rouget de Lisle

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Officer of the Engineers, born at Lons-le-Saulnier; immortalised himself as the author of the "Marseillaise " (q. v .); was thrown into prison by the extreme party at the Revolution, but was released on the fall of Robespierre; fell into straitened circumstances, but was pensioned by Louis Philippe (1760-1836).

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Rouget de Lisle'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​r/rouget-de-lisle.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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