[Rouget de Lisle, Claude. 1760-1836)] Citoyen J. Wauthy.. Marche des Marseillois Varie?e pour le Violon avec un Accompagnement de Violon par le Citoyen J. Wauthy.. Paris: Fre?re. [1792]. Upright folio. 3 pp. Heavily worn with foxing and tears around the edges, one extending just into the printed music. No copies located in Worldcat of this French Revolutionary publication, one of a number of such arrangements of the Marseillaise issued by this publisher.

First published during the French Revolution, La Marseillaise - now the French national anthem - "was originally written by a royalist officer as a patriotic song in support of the then French royal government which had declared war on April 20, 1792, against the Emperor Francis of Austria and King William II of Prussia. Subsequently, volunteers from Marseilles heard the song and joined in the storming in the Tuileries on Aug. 10, 1792. The song was thereafter quickly reprinted a great many times, usually under the title Marches des Marseillais or variant thereof." (Fuld).

The violinist Wauthy played in the orchestra of Opéra, performed as soloist in Conerti by Viotti, and was teacher of Pierre-Jean Vacher. (See: Warwick Lister, Amico : The Life of Giovanni Battista Viotti," p. 115, 153)