Lyon-born railwayman and journalist elected to both Committees of Public Safety of the Paris Commune
Born in Lyon in 1831, he worked as a railway employee and joined the International Workingmen's Association. In 1869 he moved to Paris and wrote for Henri Rochefort's La Marseillaise. During the siege, on 7 January 1871, he signed the Affiche Rouge denouncing the Government of National Defence and calling for a Commune, and he was elected to the Central Committee of the National Guard. Elected to the Commune council for the 3rd arrondissement on 26 March, he served as delegate for the interior and as secretary of the sessions, and on 1 May he was elected to the Committee of Public Safety, being re-elected on 9 May. He fought through the Bloody Week and escaped to London, where he sat on the General Council of the International, but in 1872 he left the International with his Blanquist friends. He returned after the 1880 amnesty and died in poverty.
Also known as: Armand Antoine Jules Arnaud
Activities and affiliations
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1871
Paris Commune (1871)Commune member and member of the Committee of Public SafetyHeads of state and government of FranceMain
Government and administration -
1871–1872
International Workingmen's Association (First International)Member of the IWA General Council
Social movements and organizing
Career Timeline
- 1871.03.26–05.28Member of the Paris Commune council (3rd arrondissement)
- 1871.05.01–28Member of the Committee of Public Safety of the Paris Commune
- 1871–1872Member of the IWA General Council in London