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
Heather De Lisle Heather De Lisle Heather Anne De Lisle (born August 17, 1976 in Landstuhl, West Germany) is an American television presenter at the international broadcaster Deutsche Welle and a radio correspondent for ABC News. De Lisle is the daughter of radio disc jockey Rik De Lisle. At the age of 15, she hosted her first radio broadcast on American Forces Network (Berlin). She studied at the University of Maryland", and attended the SRT – School for Broadcast Technology" (now known as the ARD-ZDF Media Academy) in Nuremberg. Since 1995 she has worked freelance for Deutsche Welle, first presenting the weather, then