Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1918 — "Marseillaise” Author a Royalist [ARTICLE]

"Marseillaise” Author a Royalist

The “Marseillaise” is often considered a hymn by radicals and Reds, because it was first widely used by revolutionists, but Rouget de Lisle was, when he wrote it and to the end of his long life, a convinced royalist, true to his* oath of loyalty to Louis XVI. Some months after his great hymn was written he was arrested as a counter-revo-lutionary, and was saved from the guillotine only because Robespierre, the master terrorist, was executed. Rqpget de Lisle was so hostile to the radicals that, rather than take part in the wars of revolutionary France, he retired from the army, becoming prominent again only after the July revolution, when King Louis Philippe made him a chevalier of the Legion of Honor and gave him a pension.