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
Juan Roget Rodez Cathedral in Aveyron and found that there was a "Roget" family of spectacle makers, leading him to conclude that the spectacle maker in the Sirtori story was Juan Roget. In 1979, Dr. Lopez Piñero in his book: "Ciencia y técnica en la sociedad española de los siglos XVI y XVII" explains that Simón de Guilleuma, solidly based on archival data, provided the documentary evidence that, before 1593, "long-range glasses" had been built in those workshops. In March of that year Pedro de Cardona, a prominent personality of the citizen oligarchy, and left among his assets a "long eyeglass decorated