Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (), 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. Rouget de Lisle was born at Lons-le-Saunier, reputedly on a market day. His parents lived in the neighbouring village of Montaigu. A plaque was placed at the precise spot of his
Juan Roget Rodez Cathedral in Aveyron and found that there was a "Roget" family of spectacle makers, leading him to conclude that the spectacle maker in the Sirtori story was Juan Roget. In 1979, Dr. Lopez Piñero in his book: "Ciencia y técnica en la sociedad española de los siglos XVI y XVII" explains that Simón de Guilleuma, solidly based on archival data, provided the documentary evidence that, before 1593, "long-range glasses" had been built in those workshops. In March of that year Pedro de Cardona, a prominent personality of the citizen oligarchy, and left among his assets a "long eyeglass decorated