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
Beauvoir De Lisle Beauvoir De Lisle General Sir Henry de Beauvoir De Lisle, (27 July 1864 – 16 July 1955) was a British Army General who served in the Second Boer War and World War I. Born in Guernsey and educated in Jersey, De Lisle was commissioned into the 2nd Bn Durham Light Infantry in 1883. He saw service with the Mounted Infantry in Egypt between 1885 and 1886, being awarded his DSO there, and was promoted to the rank of captain on 1 October 1891. He studied at the Staff College in 1899 before returning to the Mounted Infantry when he was