Did You Know....? - Poptastic


Claude Rouget de Lisle composed "The Marseillaise" in return for a bottle of wine. The tune subsequently became the anthem of French Revolutionaries. Ironically, Rouget de Lisle was a royalist who narrowly excaped being guillotined.

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