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months before it got to Marseilles. On June 25th Mireur sang it at a banquet there, and with so much effect that it was printed and dis-tributed amongst Barbaroux's " Six Hundred" who were about to march to Paris. They sang it when they entered Paris on July 30th, and at the attack on the Tuileries on August 10th.
Jean Alexandre Boucher, who claimed to have written the song, as previously stated, was an extraordinary individual, born the same year his homonym, the Painter of Dubarrydom, died. He was a Court fiddler at the early age of six. He was of the " Concert Spirituel" at seven; and solo-violinist to the King of Spain whom Napoleon Empereur vanquished. After the peace he toured through Europe, and made a great sensation wherever he went. He called himself " Alexandre des Violons," and won a reputation second only to that of the great Paganini. His chief hobby seemed to be in imitating Napoleon, whom he closely resembled. He made a considerable fortune, and died in 1861.
I have purposely given all the versions and particulars respecting the " Marseillaise" that I have come across from time to time, and I trust that such facts as I have been at some pains to unearth and verify, will remove all doubt on the
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