Rouget de Lisle

or Rou·get de I'Isle

[ roo-zhe duh leel ]
/ ruˈʒɛ də ˈlil /

noun

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
/ (French ruʒɛ də lil) /

noun

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