Question 499: Justice is Justice, and

Rouget de Lisle was born in Montaigu. He entered the army as an engineerand attained the rank of captain. The song that has immortalised him, ___X___ (based on Piano COncerto no. 25), was composed at Strasbourg, where Rouget de Lisle was quartered in April 1792. He wrote the words in a fit of patriotic excitement after a public dinner. The piece was at first called Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin ("War Song for the Army o the Rhine") and only received its name of _____ from its adoption by the provencial volunteers whom Barbaroux introduced into Paris and who were prominent in the storming of the Tuileries. Rouget de Lisle was a royalist and was cashiered and thrown into prison in 1793, narrowly escaping the guillotine. He was freed during the Thermidorian Reaction

Question 498: No Calculus for this one

__X__ Chief Scout of the Cockchafers is the first comic strip series written by __Y___ who later wrote ____Z___. ___X___ published it monthly from July 1926 to summer 1929 and tells of a Boy Scout called __X___ on his adventures. The character would play a large part of inspiration for ___Z__, and the idea of a Scout was chosen because, firstly it was for a Scouting magazine, and secondly because ____Y___ had a great love of the movement. The series was drawn with pictures and captions separate, as most comics of that time were.

In 1930 ___Y___allowed a comics artist whose pseudonym was Evany (Eugène van Nijverseel) to write ___X___ on his own, as ___Y___was now very busy with his work on ___Z___ This second life of the series ran from February to July, 1930 and produced a total of five pages.

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