Talk:Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

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Wasn't he originally a strong monarchist? Steve 09:29, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

"the 10 August"

Acknowledging:

This insurrection and its outcome are most commonly referred to by historians of the
Revolution simply as "the 10 August"; other common designations include "the journée
of the 10 August" (French: journée du 10 août), "the insurrection of the 10 August",
or even "the revolution of the 10 August".

as noted in the 10_August_(French_Revolution) Wikipedia page, the use of "the 10 August" here seemed unnecessarily stilted to this non-historian. If the principal editor of this page would prefer "the 10th of August 1792," that was my other alternative; frankly, I would have wanted to superscript the "th" in that case and I couldn't remember the command to do so. I certainly acknowledge that the original version before I revised it was the literal translation of journée du 10 août. My insertion of the year was because the siege of the Tuileries royal palace was more than three years after the storming of the Bastille on the much more widely remembered date of 14 July 1789. Dick Kimball (talk) 13:14, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Rouget de Lisle Escaping Summary Execution

Lisle was a royalist and was cashiered and thrown into prison in 1793, narrowly escaping
the guillotine. He was freed during the Thermidorian Reaction.

I, for one, would be most curious how Rouget de Lisle was not executed during the Reign of Terror
(5 September 1793 – 28 July 1794), which under the Law of Suspects acquitted very few royalists or Aristos as the former French nobility were termed during this period and the Thermidorian Reaction didn't begin until 27 July 1794. Was it because of his composing La Marseillaise or for some other reason? As a royalist army officer he presumably would have fought against the French Revolution; even prominent revolutionaries Georges Danton and Jacques Hébert were sent to the guillotine during la Terreur. M. Rouget de Lisle even survived the intensive executions of the Great Terror (la Grande Terreur in French) of June and July 1794.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Dick Kimball (talk • contribs) 14:53, 25 April 2014

Montaigu or Montague

It says he retired to Montague. Shouldn't that be Montaigu, the village of his parents? Vinguru (talk) 04:54, 4 July 2019 (UTC)