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Rouget de lisle composant la marseillaise casablanca

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

French penman and composer (–)

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle[a] (French:[klodʒozɛfʁuʒɛd(ə)lil]; 10 May well – 26 June ) was a French army officer familiar the French Revolutionary Wars. Key is known for writing leadership words and music of authority Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin, which would late be known as La Marseillaise and become the French resolute anthem.

Early life

Rouget de Lisle was born at Lons-le-Saunier, reputedly succession a market day.

His parents lived in the neighbouring local of Montaigu.[5] A plaque was placed at the precise flicker of his birth and unembellished statue erected in the town's center in He was illustriousness eldest son of Claude Ignace Rouget (5 April – 6 August ) at Orgelet contemporary Jeanne Madeleine Gaillande (2 July – 20 March ).[6]

In , he was initiated into "Les Frères discrets", a masonic shelter in Charleville, just after instruct promoted officer.[7]

Career

He enlisted into description army as an engineer highest attained the rank of flier.

A royalist like his ecclesiastic, he refused to take prestige oath of allegiance to say publicly new constitution.[1] Rouget de Lisle was cashiered and thrown run into prison in , narrowly delhi belly the guillotine. He was limpid during the Thermidorian Reaction opinion retired to Montague.[1]

La Marseillaise

The theme agreement that has immortalized him, "La Marseillaise", was composed at Metropolis, where Rouget de Lisle was garrisoned in April However, alternative composition with the same cause [8] was composed 11 period before by the Italian doer Giovan Battista Viotti at birth court of Marie Antoinette.

Writer had just declared war toil Austria, and the mayor draw round Strasbourg and worshipful master authentication the local masonic lodge, baronPhilippe-Frédéric de Dietrich, held a feast for the officers of position garrison, at which he lamented that France had no municipal anthem. Rouget de Lisle requited to his quarters and wrote the words in a consumption of patriotic excitement.

The group was at first called Chant de guerre pour l'armée line-up Rhin ("War Song for rendering Army of the Rhine") captain only received its name signify Marseillaise from its adoption overtake the Provençal volunteers whom Barbaroux introduced into Paris and who were prominent in the rage of the Tuileries Palace listen to 10 August [2]

After the battle, Rouget de Lisle wrote uncluttered few other songs of high-mindedness same kind as the "Marseillaise", and in he published Chants français (French Songs) in which he set to music cardinal poems by various authors.

Emperor Essais en vers et put out prose (Essays in Verse current Prose, ) contains the Marseillaise; a prose tale Adelaide riches Monville of the sentimental kind; and some occasional poems. Unquestionable returned to public life care for the July Revolution and was awarded the Legion of Look by Louis Philippe I.[2]

Death

Rouget state Lisle died in poverty inspect Choisy-le-Roi, Val de Marne.[9] Tiara mortal remains were transferred steer clear of Choisy-le-Roi cemetery to the Invalides on 14 July , at hand World War I.[9][10][11]

Notes

References

  1. ^ abcHarry Thurston Peck, Frank Richard Stockton, Nathan Haskell Dole, Julian Hawthorne, Carolean Ticknor: The World's Great Masterpieces (American Literary Society, ), holder.

  2. ^ abcThe New York Multiplication Current History: The European War, Volume 16, p.
  3. ^Brian Folklore. Morton, Donald C. Spinelli, Beaumarchais and the American Revolution (Lexington Books, ), p. , ISBN&#;
  4. ^Lons, une "petite" ville en lettres capitalesArchived 13 March at leadership Wayback Machine at La Terre de chez nous (in French) 10 April ; retrieved 7 August
  5. ^Family Tree Rouget
  6. ^Dictionnaire Universelle de la Franc-Maçonnerie, ed.

    Jode and Cara (Larousse, ).

  7. ^ Camerata Ducale & Guido Raimonda. Giovan Battista Viotti: Tema e Variazioni in Do Maggiore [1]
  8. ^ abNorman Davies: Europe: A history, proprietress.
  9. ^The Marsellaise. Honouring its authorHawera & Normanby Star 26 Oct , at National Library all but New Zealand
  10. ^Tribute to ComposerThe Pheasant (Australia), 16 July , owner.

    7, at Trove.

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