Alphonse Baudin

France state institutions Russian revolutionary democrats 1811–1851 ✕ Killed on a barricade

Montagnard deputy killed on a barricade in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine on 3 December 1851 resisting the coup

Born at Nantua in 1811, the son of an army surgeon, he studied medicine in Lyon and Paris, served as an army doctor in Algeria and in 1838 resigned to practise in Montmartre for thirteen years as a "doctor of the poor". After the revolution of 1848 he presided over a political club, and on 13 May 1849 he was elected deputy for the Ain and sat with the Mountain. When Louis Napoleon struck on 2 December 1851, he wrote with Victor Hugo the resistance committee's declaration that the president had put himself outside the law. Next day he helped workers of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine build a barricade, mounted it flag in hand and was shot dead by the troops. His grave became a rallying point for republicans, and in 1889 his remains were moved to the Panthéon.

Also known as: Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Victor Baudin