Rouget de Lisle (Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle) (1760-1836). French officer in the Army of the Rhine. Famous for composing "La Marseillaise". The first performance of the piece took place on 26 April 1792, in the salon of Baron Frédéric de Dietrich, Mayor of Strasbourg. The "Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin" (War Song for the Army of the Rhine), the hymn of the Marseillais volunteers, became known as "La Marseillaise". On 14 March 1879 it became the national anthem of France. Rouget de Lisle singing La Marseillaise for the first time, at Dietrich's house. Chromolithography by Vicente Giné.
Rouget de Lisle (Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle) (1760-1836). French officer in the Army of the Rhine. Famous for composing "La Marseillaise". The first performance of the piece took place on 26 April 1792, in the salon of Baron Frédéric de Dietrich, Mayor of Strasbourg. The "Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin" (War Song for the Army of the Rhine), the hymn of the Marseillais volunteers, became known as "La Marseillaise". On 14 March 1879 it became the national anthem of France. Rouget de Lisle singing La Marseillaise for the first time, at Dietrich's house. Chromolithography by Vicente Giné. "Los Girondinos" (Revolución Francesa) (The Girondins, French Revolution), by A. de Lamartine. Volume I. Published in Barcelona, 1904.
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