Rouget de Lisle
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Rouget de Lisle
(də lēl′), Claude Joseph 1760-1836. French soldier and songwriter who wrote "La Marseillaise" (1792), the French national anthem.
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Rouget de Lisle
(French ruʒɛ də lil)n
(Biography) Claude Joseph (klod ʒozɛf). 1760–1836, French army officer: composer of the Marseillaise (1792), the French national anthem
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Rou•get de Lisle
(ruˈʒeɪ də ˈlil)n.
Claude Joseph, 1760–1836, French army officer and composer: wrote the Marseillaise.
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