O you who turn the wheel and look to windward...

Gilgul (Heb. גלגול הנשמות) describes a Kabbalistic concept of reincarnation (rather like Metempsychosis). Souls are seen to "cycle" through "lives" being attached to different human bodies over time. Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle was born at Lons-le-Saunier on market day.  He later wrote the words to the Marseillaise in a fit of post-prandial patriotic excitement. As a royalist he narrowly escaped the guillotine, but died in poverty on 26 June 1836, his spirit passing on to Suzannah Thoresen who was born that day in Herøy, Norway. She married Henrik Ibsen and their only son Sigurd Ibsen became Prime Minister of Norway and died on April 14, 1930 the day that Kaviyoor Revamma the Carnatic vocalist was born in Kaviyoor, India.