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subject of the authorship of this composition for the future. A full account of the song may also be found in " Les Melodies Populaires de la France," by Loquin, published in Paris, 1879. In conclusion, it is pleasant to be able to add that Frenchmen have acknowledged the genius of Rouget de Lisle at last by erecting a statue to him in their beloved city of Paris, 1892.
Amongst de Lisle's best works may be men-tioned " Hymne dithyrambique sur la conjura-tion de Robespierre et la revolution du 9 ther-midor" (1794), " Chant des Vengeances" (1798), "Chant du Combat" (1800, for the Egyptian Army). He also wrote the libretto of the comic opera " Jacquot, ou 1'ecole des meres" (music by Delia Maria, 1795), and of the grand opera " Macbeth/' to the music of Chelard, 1827,
I can trace only two plays in which the story of the writing of the " Marseillaise" has been utilized, the best, called " An Old Song," by the Rev. Freeman Wills and A. Fitz-Maurice King, was produced at the Great Hall, Tunbridge Wells, August 2nd, 1894, and reproduced with-out much success at the Criterion Theatre in the fall of 1896. |
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