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asleep with his head on his desk. In the morn-ing he was able to recall every note of the song, immediately wrote it down and carried it to his friend Baron Dietrich. Everyone was en-chanted with the song, which aroused the greatest enthusiasm. A few days later it was publicly given in Strasburg, and thence it was conveyed by the multitude to the insurg-ents of Marseilles, and, of its after popularity we know. De Lisle's mother was a most devoted Royalist, and asked, " What do people mean by associating our name with the revolutionary hymn which those brigands sing ?" De Lisle himself, proscribed as a Royalist, when flying for his life in t he Jura mountains, heard it as a menace of death, and recognizing the well-known air, asked his guide what it was called. It had then been christened the " Marseillaise Hymn," and was so called until hymns went out of fashion, when it was known by the one word. In his late years de Lisle is said to have been twice in prison, and to have been reduced to the utmost poverty. A short time before his death, when all hopes and ambitions had been extinguished in him by age, he was decorated with the ribbon of the Legion of Honour. Soon after this tardy recognition several pen-sions were conferred upon him which he did
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