Object Description
309 CLAUDE JOSEPH ROUGET DE LISLE (1760- 1836), author of the Marseillaise 1833
Obv. Head to right. Around, A ROUGET DE LISLE AUTEUR DE LA MARSEILLAISE . ; below truncation, E . ROGAT DIRIGE PAR | P . J . DAVID 1833 .
Rev. All six verses of the Marseillaise, the first set to music. Fasces in center
Bronze, struck, 51 mm.
While an officer at Strasbourg in 1792 Rouget de Lisle wrote the words and music of the Marseillaise for the soldiers of the Army of the Rhine. Although the song later became inseparably associated with the Revolution, he himself was a royalist and barely escaped the guillotine. The medal was executed after a portrait medallion by David d'Angers, done in 1827 (Forrer i, p. 524).
Bibl.: Forrer 5, pp. 191-92.
