Shoemaker sent to Paris by the General Council who sat on the Council of the Commune
A shoemaker born at Figanières in the Var in 1840, he settled in London with his father. In October 1869 he joined the General Council of the International and became its Corresponding Secretary for Belgium, Spain and the Netherlands. After the Republic was proclaimed on 4 September 1870 he was sent to Paris, the other envoy being Elisabeth Dmitrieff, and led the republican committee of the 2nd arrondissement. After reporting in London he went back to Paris, and in the by-elections of 16 April 1871 was elected to the Council of the Commune for the 2nd arrondissement, sitting on its Labour and Exchange Commission. He voted against the Committee of Public Safety and signed the manifesto of the minority; after the Bloody Week he reached London and was sentenced to death in absentia. At the Hague Congress of 1872 he voted for Bakunin's expulsion. He died at Joinville-le-Pont in 1891.
Activities and affiliations
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1869–1872
International Workingmen's Association (First International)Main
Social movements and organizing -
1871
Paris Commune (1871)Member of the Council of the Commune
Legislature and state representation
Career Timeline
- 1869–1872General Council member and Corresponding Secretary for Belgium, Spain and the Netherlands
- 1870Sent to Paris as the General Council's envoy
- 1871Member of the Council of the Commune (2nd arrondissement), Labour and Exchange Commission
- 1872Delegate to the Hague Congress