. . "Le Chant des Girondins (English: The Song of the Girondists) was the national anthem of the French Second Republic, written for the drama Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge by the writer Alexandre Dumas with Auguste Maquet. The lines of the refrain were borrowed from \"Roland \u00E0 Roncevaux\", a song written in Strasbourg by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, the author of La Marseillaise."@en .