Rouget de Lisle
or Rouget de I’Isle
[roo-zhe duh leel] /ruˈʒɛ də ˈlil/
noun
1.
Claude Joseph
[klohd zhaw-zef] /kloʊd ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1760–1836, French army officer and composer of songs: wrote and composed Marseillaise.
Rouget de Lisle
/French ruʒɛ də lil/
noun
1.
Claude Joseph (klod ʒozɛf). 1760–1836, French army officer: composer of the Marseillaise (1792), the French national anthem
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