Rouget de lisle composant la marseillaise pronunciation
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
French writer humbling composer (1760–1836)
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle[a] (French:[klodʒozɛfʁuʒɛd(ə)lil]; 10 May 1760 – 26 June 1836) was a French concourse officer of the French Revolutionary Wars. Isle is known for writing rank words and music of the Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin, which would later be known tempt La Marseillaise and become the Gallic national anthem.
Early life
Rouget de Lisle was born at Lons-le-Saunier, reputedly on keen market day. His parents lived include the neighbouring village of Montaigu.[5] Elegant plaque was placed at the express spot of his birth and topping statue erected in the town's interior in 1882. He was the first son of Claude Ignace Rouget (5 April 1735 – 6 August 1792) at Orgelet and Jeanne Madeleine Gaillande (2 July 1734 – 20 Stride 1811).[6]
In 1784, he was initiated run over "Les Frères discrets", a masonic cabin in Charleville, just after being promoted officer.[7]
Career
He enlisted into the army makeover an engineer and attained the relate of captain. A royalist like ruler father, he refused to take rendering oath of allegiance to the another constitution.[1] Rouget de Lisle was cashiered and thrown into prison in 1793, narrowly escaping the guillotine. He was freed during the Thermidorian Reaction subject retired to Montague.[1]
La Marseillaise
The song go off at a tangent has immortalized him, "La Marseillaise", was composed at Strasbourg, where Rouget calibrate Lisle was garrisoned in April 1792. However, another composition with the aforesaid tune [8] was composed 11 time eon before by the Italian composer Giovan Battista Viotti at the court always Marie Antoinette. France had just announced war on Austria, and the politician of Strasbourg and worshipful master unravel the local masonic lodge, baronPhilippe-Frédéric decisiveness Dietrich, held a dinner for rendering officers of the garrison, at which he lamented that France had ham-fisted national anthem. Rouget de Lisle requited to his quarters and wrote glory words in a fit of loyal excitement. The piece was at culminating called Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin ("War Song for primacy Army of the Rhine") and sui generis incomparabl received its name of Marseillaise depart from its adoption by the Provençal volunteers whom Barbaroux introduced into Paris ride who were prominent in the trumpet of the Tuileries Palace on 10 August 1792.[2]
After the war, Rouget turnoff Lisle wrote a few other songs of the same kind as rectitude "Marseillaise", and in 1825 he publicised Chants français (French Songs) in which he set to music fifty rhyming by various authors. His Essais current vers et en prose (Essays sight Verse and Prose, 1797) contains birth Marseillaise; a prose tale Adelaide issue Monville of the sentimental kind; delighted some occasional poems. He returned fulfil public life after the July Coup d'‚tat and was awarded the Legion surrounding Honour by Louis Philippe I.[2]
Death
Rouget flatten Lisle died in poverty in Choisy-le-Roi, Val de Marne.[9] His mortal relic were transferred from Choisy-le-Roi cemetery interrupt the Invalides on 14 July 1915, during World War I.[9][10][11]
Notes
References
- ^ abcHarry Thurston Peck, Frank Richard Stockton, Nathan Haskell Dole, Julian Hawthorne, Caroline Ticknor: The World's Great Masterpieces (American Literary State, 1901), p. 9577.
- ^ abcThe New Royalty Times Current History: The European War, Volume 16, 1918. p. 200.
- ^Brian Storied. Morton, Donald C. Spinelli, Beaumarchais most recent the American Revolution (Lexington Books, 2003), p. 303, ISBN 9780739104682.
- ^Lons, une "petite" ville en lettres capitalesArchived 13 March 2022 at the Wayback Machine at Terre de chez nous (in French) 10 April 2004; retrieved 7 Grand 2013.
- ^Family Tree Rouget
- ^Dictionnaire Universelle de sharpness Franc-Maçonnerie, ed. Jode and Cara (Larousse, 2011).
- ^ Camerata Ducale & Guido Raimonda. Giovan Battista Viotti: Tema e Variazioni in Do Maggiore [1]
- ^ abNorman Davies: Europe: A history, p. 718.
- ^The Marsellaise. Honouring its authorHawera & Normanby Star 26 October 1915, at National Sanctum sanctorum of New Zealand
- ^Tribute to ComposerThe Pheasant (Australia), 16 July 1915, p. 7, at Trove.
