Rouget de Lisle

Rouget de Lisle or Rou·get de I’Isle [roo-zhe duh leel] noun

1. Claude Joseph [klohd zhaw-zef] /kloʊd ʒɔˈzɛf/, 1760–1836, French army officer and composer of songs: wrote and composed Marseillaise.

British Dictionary definitions for rouget de lisle Rouget de Lisle noun

1. Claude Joseph (klod ʒozɛf). 1760–1836, French army officer: composer of the Marseillaise (1792), the French national anthem