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 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