Rouget de Lisle

or Rou·get de I'Isle

[ roo-zhe duh leel ]

noun

1. Claude Joseph [klohd zhaw-, zef], 1760–1836, French army officer and composer of songs: wrote and composed Marseillaise.

Rouget de Lisle

/ ruʒɛ də lil /

noun

1. Rouget de LisleClaude Joseph17601836MFrenchMILITARY: army officerMUSIC: composer of the Marseillaise Claude Joseph (klod ʒozɛf). 1760–1836, French army officer: composer of the Marseillaise (1792), the French national anthem

Example Sentences

“That infamous line about impure blood is my favorite,” he said, sharing an unusual interpretation from his high school history teacher: Rouget de Lisle was calling on people to shed their own impure blood in defense of the French Revolution — purity having been something previously associated with the aristocracy.

From New York Times

Jean-Marc Todeschini, who is responsible for veteran affairs at the Defense Ministry, said that the Year of the Marseillaise was declared precisely so that the French, especially the young, could re-appropriate the republican values of the song, which was written by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in 1792 during the French Revolution.

From New York Times

The mayor of Strasbourg asked Rouget de Lisle to write a song that would rally troops to "defend their homeland that is under threat".

From BBC

In 1792 Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, a captain in the French army, composed the song after Austrian and Prussian troops invaded France in an attempt to quell the revolution.

From BBC

It was written in 1792 by Capt. Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle to inspire French troops under siege by Prussian soldiers in Strasbourg, and it was originally called “The War Hymn of the Army of the Rhine.”

From New York Times