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May 20, 2014
Medal of Claude Joseph Rouget de L'Isle (1760-1836) (reverse)
Medal of Claude Joseph Rouget de L'Isle (1760-1836) (reverse)
1911
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Bronze
Overall: 5.8 x 0.5 cm (2 5/16 x 3/16 in.)
Gift of Lawrence Hitchcock 1919.99.b
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Claude Joseph Rouget de L'Isle composed the French national anthem, La Marseillaises, in 1792 in Strasbourg after France had declared war on Austria.
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The French sculptor and medalist Alfred Borrel (1836-1927) created this portrait medal to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Rouget de L'Isle's death in 1836, the same year in which the sculptor was born.
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