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
De Lisle carbine by de Lisle, was much more successful. Tests of this showed the weapon had acceptable accuracy, produced no visible muzzle flash and was inaudible at a distance of . Subsequent official firing tests recorded the De Lisle produced 85.5 dB of noise when fired. As a comparison, modern testing on a selection of handguns has shown that they produce 156 to 168 dB when firing without a suppressor, and 117 to 140 dB when firing with one fitted. The de Lisle's quietness was found to be comparable to the British Welrod pistol. However, the Welrod was useful only at very