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Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

1760 - 1836

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Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (French: [klod ʒɔzɛf ʁuʒɛ d(ə) lil]), sometimes spelled de l'Isle or de Lile (10 May 1760 – 26 June 1836), was a French army officer of the French Revolutionary Wars. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle has received more than 278,049 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle is the 152nd most popular composer (down from 135th in 2019), the 680th most popular biography from France (down from 560th in 2019) and the 28th most popular French Composer.

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle is most famous for writing the song "La Marseillaise."

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  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.61

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  • 3.71

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle ranks 152 out of 1,216Before him are Henry Mancini, Kurt Weill, Darius Milhaud, Philip Glass, George Enescu, and Enrique Granados. After him are Édouard Lalo, Ottorino Respighi, Vincenzo Galilei, Gustav Holst, Giovanni Paisiello, and Marin Marais.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1760, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle ranks 8Before him are Pope Leo XII, Henri de Saint-Simon, Luigi Cherubini, Jiaqing Emperor, François-Noël Babeuf, and Camille Desmoulins. After him are Alexandre de Beauharnais, Johan Gadolin, August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Jan Ladislav Dussek, Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein, and Aloysia Weber. Among people deceased in 1836, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle ranks 6Before him are André-Marie Ampère, Charles X of France, James Madison, Letizia Ramolino, and Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès. After him are William Godwin, Maria Malibran, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, James Mill, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, and Davy Crockett.

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In France

Among people born in France, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle ranks 680 out of 6,011Before him are Marie François Sadi Carnot (1837), Paul Mauriat (1925), Louis Renault (1877), Joseph Proust (1754), Hans Bethe (1906), and Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786). After him are Chlodomer (495), Édouard Lalo (1823), Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805), Jean-Baptiste Kléber (1753), Nicole Oresme (1323), and Nicolas Fouquet (1615).

Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle ranks 28Before him are Maurice Jarre (1924), Pierre Boulez (1925), Michel Legrand (1932), Léonin (1135), Daniel Auber (1782), and Darius Milhaud (1892). After him are Édouard Lalo (1823), Marin Marais (1656), Pauline Viardot (1821), Philippe de Vitry (1291), Francis Lai (1932), and Ernest Chausson (1855).