Amé Thérèse Joseph Masclet (17 November 1760, Douai – 7 October 1833, Nice) was a French diplomat and an author of letters to Lafayette.
Former civil servant of Ancien Régime in the French Royal Navy, at Saint-Domingue, he was then a lawyer of the Parlement of Paris in 1788.
[1][2] At the outbreak of the French Revolution, he was involved as a journalist for the Mercure National[n 1], writing especially for press freedom.
[2] Masclet, who was friend to Rouget de Lisle, wrote the last two verses of La Marseillaise.
[5][6][7] In an anonymous letter published in the Journal de Paris (1791) under his pseudonym "Eleuthere", he opposed Collot d'Herbois in the case of the Swiss of the Château-Vieux Regiment, that paradoxically became the symbol of freedom, and, in 1792, expressed with André Chénier his strongest claims against festivities given in their honor by the municipality of Paris.