The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Rouget de Lisle, Claude Joseph

ROUGET DE LISLE, roo-zhā dė lēl, Claude Joseph, French song-writer: b. Lons-le-Saulnier, France, 10 May 1760; d. Choisy-le-Roi, 27 June 1836. He published &lsquo;Fifty French Songs, Words of Various Authors, Set to Music by Rouget de Lisle&rsquo; (1826), etc., but is chiefly remembered as the author of both the words and music of &lsquo;the ../Marseillaise/&rsquo; (q.v.).