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
John de Lisle (cricketer) leading Catholic figure and the builder of Grace Dieu Manor. John de Lisle intended to make a military career in the cavalry but for financial reasons had to settle instead for a life in business in the jute trade in India, where he joined the Calcutta Scottish Regiment in the First World War. On a visit home to England in 1921 he made a single first-class appearance for Leicestershire in a County Championship match against Kent, and although Leicestershire lost the match de Lisle, with innings of 72 and 88, top-scored in both innings. None of the rest of de