See also:

• CLAUDE, JEAN (1619-1687)

CLAUDE See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

JOSEPH ROUGET DE See also:

• LISLE, ALICE (c. 1614-1685)

LISLE (176o-1836)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French author, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the loth of May 176o, at Lons-le-Saunier (See also:

• JURA
• JURA (" deer island ")

Jura) . He entered the See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army as an engineer, and attained the See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank of See also:

• CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

captain . He was one of those authors whom a single See also:

• WORK

work has made famous . The See also:

• SONG

song which has immortalized him, the Marseillaise, was composed at See also:

• STRASSBURG, or STRASBURG (French Strasbourg)

Strassburg, where Rouget de See also:

• LISLE, ALICE (c. 1614-1685)

Lisle was quartered in See also:

• APRIL

April 1792 . He wrote both words and See also:

• MUSIC

music in a See also:

• FIT

fit of patriotic excitefnent after apublic See also:

• DINNER

dinner . The piece was at first called See also:

• CHANT (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. cantare, to sing; an old form is " chaunt ")

Chant de guerre de l'armee du Rhin, and only received its name of Marseillaise from its See also:

• ADOPTION (Lat. adoptio, for adoptalio, from adoptare, to choose for oneself)

adoption by the Provencal See also:

• VOLUNTEERS

volunteers whom See also:

• BARBAROUX, CHARLES JEAN MARIE (1767-1794)

Barbaroux introduced into See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, and who were prominent in the storming of the Tuileries . The author was a moderate republican, and was cashiered and thrown into See also:

• PRISON (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. prehensio, seizure)

prison; but the See also:

• COUNTER

counter-revolution set him at See also:

• LIBERTY (Lat. libertas, from liber, free)

liberty . He died at See also:

• CHOISY, FRANCOIS TIMOLEON, APIA DE (1644-1724)

Choisy-le-Roi (See also:

• SEINE
• SEINE (Lat. Sequana)
• SEINE, or SEAN (O. Fr. seigne, mod. seine, Lat. sagena, Gr. vaytivrl, a draw-net)

Seine et See also:

• OISE

Oise) on the 26th of See also:

• JUNE

June 1836 . The stirring See also:

• MELODY (Gr. ,ueXw3ia, a choral song, from name, tune, and gi6i, song)

melody of the Marseillaise and its ingenious See also:

• ADAPTATION (from Lat. adaptare. to fit to)

adaptation to the words serve to disguise the alternate poverty and bombast of the words them-selves . Rouget de Lisle wrote a few other songs of the same See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind, and in 1825 he published Chants See also:

• FRANCAIS, ANTOINE, COUNT (1756-1836)

francais, in which he set to music fifty songs by various authors . His Essais en vers et en See also:

• PROSE

prose (1797) contains the Marseillaise, a prose See also:

• TALE (O.Eng. talu, number, account, story; the word is common to many Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Zahl, number, Erzahlung, narrative, Du. taal, speech, language)

tale of the sentimental kind called See also:

• ADELAIDE
• ADELAIDE (Ger. Adelheid) (931-999)

Adelaide et Monville, and some occasional poems .