I. THE MARSEILLAISE

[Rouget de L'Isle (1760-1837). Known as the author of La Marseillaise

which was composed during the French Révolution at a time when France

was threatened with foreign invasion. This famous battle song, known

at first as the Chant de l'armée du Rhin, is said to hâve taken its name—

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La (se. chanson) Marseillaise — from the Marseilles troops, by whom it was first sung in Paris. ] 80. —The first and last stanzas only of /.a Marseillaise hâve been inseried.