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
Beauvoir De Lisle 1918 and GOC XV Corps in April 1918. After the War he was appointed GOC-in-Chief of Western Command: he held this post until 1923 and then retired in 1926. Along with the First Sea Lord, Admiral Lord Fisher, General de Lisle convinced General Edmund Allenby that Jerusalem would be delivered from the Turks in 1917 by the British. In June 1917, General Allenby was ordered to leave his Third Army and take command of the British war effort in the Middle East. However General Allenby was not excited about his new assignment. General Sir Beauvoir de Lisle met Allenby at