Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French soldier and composer (born 1760)

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

French writer and composer (1760–1836)

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle was a French army officer of the French Revolutionary Wars. Lisle is known for writing the words and music of the Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin, which would later be known as La Marseillaise and become the French national anthem.