Rouget de Lisle, officer of the Engineers, born at Lons-le-Saulnier; immortalised himself as the author of the “Marseillaise” (q.v.); was thrown into prison by the extreme party at the Revolution, but was released on the fall of Robespierre; fell into straitened circumstances, but was pensioned by Louis Philippe (1760‒1836).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Rouen * Rouge-et-Noir