Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle , sometimes spelled
de l'Isle or
de Lile (10 May 1760 – 26 June 1836), was a
French army officer of the
French Revolutionary Wars. He is known for writing the words and music of the
Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin in 1792, which would later be known as
La Marseillaise and become the French
national anthem.