From one resting place to another On a Sunday, 26 June 1836, just before midnight, Rouget de Lisle died at Choisy-le-Roi following a severe bronchial catarrh. He was 76 years old. His funeral took place […]
- 09 -012016
Rouget de Lisle & La Marseillaise : épisode 11
The Native Son Following the death of Rouget de Lisle in 1836, the Emulation Society of the Jura was the first society to set up a national campaign for the erection of a monument in […]
- 08 -242016
Rouget de Lisle & La Marseillaise : episode 10
Two Monuments for One Single Man During the Third Republic (1870-1940), symbols borrowed from the French Revolution of 1789 were systematically used to serve as affirmations of republican governmental power and control: the initials “RF” […]
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