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
Melchior de Lisle Melchior de Lisle Melchior de Lisle (1908-16 August 1977) was a French entomologist. He specialised in Coleoptera Lucanidae. A biography was written by Jean-Pierre Lacroix In 1933 he marries Christiane Frommer who will hold in Paris a renowned music lounge. He was a technician of value, an alumnus of the École polytechnique. In Cameroon he manages works of infrastructure (bridges), on returning to Paris he is a headmaster of an engineering school. He is an excellent pianist. During his stay in Cameroon, he is interested in cetonids, the customs of which he observes and he describes new forms or new