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Rouget de Lisle

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(ro̵̅o̅ z̸hed lēl′)

Rouget de Lisle, Claude Joseph 1760-1836; Fr. army officer & composer: wrote the Marseillaise
also Rouget de L'Isle

See Rouget de Lisle in American Heritage Dictionary 4

French soldier and songwriter who wrote “La Marseillaise” (1792), the French national anthem.
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