Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (10 May 1760 – 26 June 1836) was a French composer who in 1792 wrote La Marseillaise, the French national anthem.

La Marseillaise (1792)

 * Originally titled Chant de Guerre pour l'Armée du Rhin (War Song for the Army of the Rhine) · French National Anthem - "La Marseillaise" with French and English lyrics · La Marseillaise sung in Casablanca (1942) · Mireille Mathieu - La Marseillaise (1988)

Le jour de gloire est arrivé! Contre nous de la tyrannie, L'étendard sanglant est levé, (bis) Entendez-vous dans les campagnes Mugir ces féroces soldats? Ils viennent jusque dans vos bras Égorger vos fils, vos compagnes! Aux armes, citoyens, Formez vos bataillons, Marchons, marchons! Qu'un sang impur Abreuve nos sillons! The day of glory has arrived! Against us tyranny's Bloody banner is raised … Do you hear, in the countryside, The roar of those ferocious soldiers? They're coming right into your arms To slaughter your sons, your companions!! To arms, citizens, Form your battalions, Let's march, let's march! Let an impure blood Soak our fields!
 * ''Allons enfants de la Patrie,
 * Arise, children of the Fatherland,
 * Variant translations:
 * Ye sons of France, awake to glory! Hark! hark! what myriads bid you rise! Your children, wives, and grandsires hoary, Behold their tears and hear their cries!


 * To arms! to arms! ye brave! The avenging sword unsheathe! March on! march on! all hearts resolved On victory or death!