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(Soundbite of laughter) HOFFMAN: The most important song really was "La Marseillaise," which was written by an army engineer named Rouget de Lisle, and it was written in 1792.
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(Soundbite of laughter) HOFFMAN: The most important song really was "La Marseillaise," which was written by an army engineer named Rouget de Lisle, and it was written in 1792.
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(Soundbite of laughter) HOFFMAN: The most important song really was "La Marseillaise," which was written by an army engineer named Rouget de Lisle, and it was written in 1792.
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The emperor has called this song by Rouget de Lisle the greatest general of the Revolution.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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The emperor has called this song by Rouget de Lisle the greatest general of the Revolution.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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The emperor has called this song by Rouget de Lisle the greatest general of the Revolution.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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Just above my head the men are concluding a concert with the 'King,' the 'Marseillaise' (I wonder do they appreciate that here it was first sung in its grandeur under Rouget de Lisle), and then with what should be our national song, 'Rule Britannia.'
The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919 S. J. Wilson
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Memory must bring up, in contrast, that night of 1792 in Strasbourg, when the gray dawn, struggling with the night, fell upon the pale face and burning eyes of Rouget de Lisle -- as with trembling hand he wrote the last words of the _Marseillaise_.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon
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Its author and composer (or it might be more correct to say composer and author, for in this case music preceded words), Rouget de Lisle -- a young aristocrat and an artillery officer -- had as a friend a citizen of
A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire Harold Harvey
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Hymn; but it was in reality written by an officer of engineers, Rouget de Lisle, to celebrate the departure of a band of volunteers from
Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta W. Cope Devereux
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