Émile Eudes

Paris Commune (1871) Revolutionary socialism 1843–1888 ○ Cerebral haemorrhage

Blanquist general of the Commune and member of its second Committee of Public Safety

Born at Roncey in 1843, he studied pharmacy in Paris and in 1866 became managing editor of La Libre Pensée. He joined the First International but was drawn to the revolutionary followers of Auguste Blanqui. In August 1870 he took part in the failed attack on the La Villette fire station and was sentenced to death, but was freed after Sedan. On 18 March 1871 he led the Belleville National Guard in occupying the Hôtel de Ville, and on the 26th he was elected to the Commune for the 11th arrondissement and sat on its Executive Commission and war commission. As a general he led one of the columns of the failed sortie towards Versailles on 3 April, and on 9 May he joined the Committee of Public Safety. Sentenced to death in absentia while in exile, he returned after the amnesty and co-founded the Blanquist Central Revolutionary Committee. He collapsed and died during a speech in 1888.

Also known as: Émile François Désiré Eudes · General Eudes