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
Juan Roget will from Barcelona where a man bequeathed a "long eyeglass decorated with brass" to his wife. Pelling agreed in a BBC interview that this could also describe a magnifying glass, adding that the reference to an "eyeglass/telescope for long sight" from 1608 sounds more like a Roget telescope. Juan Roget Juan Roget or Joan Roget (Angoulême, France c.1550 - Aveyron, France? c.1617-1624) was a spectacle maker in Girona, Catalonia, Spain who has been cited as a possible inventor of the telescope. Juan Roget was born in Angoulême, France, and was the son of a cloth carder Ramón Roget. According to