Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1910 — Rouget De L’isle's House. [ARTICLE]

Rouget De L’isle's House.

-The sale of Rouget de l’lsle’s old house In Paris has revived the old question whether he was the composer as well as the author of the “Marseillaise,” the Dundee Advertiser Aays. The air Jbas also been claimed for a violinist of some note in his day, named Alexandre Boucher, who Improvised It —so the story goeß—to oblige a colonel whom he had met at a hotel. The colonel, Ao the story continues, hummed It to the bandmaster of his regiment, who wrote It put and orchestrated it, and Rouget de I‘lsle wrote words for It (merely altering slx-«ight time Into common time) at the suggestion of the jailer of the prison in which he was confined In Marseilles. What truth there Is In the story It is practically Impossible to say; but there la no donbt that Alexandre Boncher, who lived to be 92, told It to a Journalist in 1860 two years before his death.