French engineer officer. He composed in 1792, in Strasbourg, the words and the music of the Marseillaise. Imprisoned during the Terror, released on the death of Robespierre, he composed songs, romances, plays (the School of Mothers, 1798). But he remained in the shadows until Louis-Philippe granted him a pension.
Gabriel Jean Joseph Molitor, Marshal of France, born March 7, 1770 in Hayange (Moselle), died July 28, 1849 in Paris. His father was a former soldier who took care of his sons education. The young Molitor enlisted, in 1791, in the second battalion of volunteers of his department; Unanimously electe