Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle adoption by the Provençal volunteers whom Barbaroux introduced into Paris and who were prominent in the storming of the Tuileries Palace on 10 August 1792. After the war, Rouget de Lisle wrote a few other songs of the same kind as the "Marseillaise" and in 1825 he published "Chants français" ("French Songs") in which he set to music fifty songs by various authors. His "Essais en vers et en prose" ("Essays in Verse and Prose", 1797) contains the "Marseillaise"; a prose tale "Adelaide et Monville" of the sentimental kind; and some occasional poems. He returned to public life after the
John de Lisle (cricketer) John de Lisle (cricketer) John Adrian Frederick March Phillipps de Lisle (27 September 1891 – 4 November 1961) was an English businessman and a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Leicestershire and was captain of the team in the 1930 season. He also served as High Sheriff of Leicestershire. He was born in Kensington, London and died at his home, Stockerston Hall, near Uppingham, Rutland. De Lisle was from a prominent Leicestershire family – his father was Edwin de Lisle, Member of Parliament for Loughborough from 1886 to 1892, and his grandfather was Ambrose Lisle March Phillipps de Lisle, a