Rouget de Lisle Quote

To arms! to arms! ye brave! The avenging sword unsheathe March on! march on! all hearts resolved On victory or death!

Rouget de Lisle

To arms! to arms! ye brave! The avenging sword unsheathe March on! march on! all hearts resolved On victory or death!

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About Rouget de Lisle

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (French: [klod ʒɔzɛf ʁuʒɛ d(ə) lil]), sometimes spelled de l'Isle or de Lile (10 May 1760 – 26 June 1836), was a 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.