Brother Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

May 10th 1760 – June 26th 1836

Member of:

Les Freres discrets, Charlesvlle, France

French army officer of the French Revolutionary Wars. He is known for writing the words and music of the Chant de guerre pour l’armée du Rhin in 1792, which would later be known as La Marseillaise and become the French national anthem.