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Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle Biography
Claude Joseph Rouget De Lisle (1760-1836) French poet and composer, best known as author of the Marseillaise, written on the night of April 24, 1792.
Francis L. Hawks, ed. Pictorial Cyclopaedia of Biography (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1856) 799.
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