Playwright and journalist who went from the Mountain of 1848 to the first Committee of Public Safety of the Commune
Born in Vierzon in 1810, he was called to the bar but devoted himself to journalism and the theatre, scoring a success with the play Le Chiffonnier de Paris in 1847. Elected to the Constituent Assembly in 1848, he voted with the Mountain and moved the abolition of the presidency. He joined the rising of 13 June 1849 and went into exile in Switzerland, Belgium and England, and in 1864 he joined the International Workingmen's Association. Back in Paris in September 1870 he published Le Combat; elected to the Commune in March 1871, he sat on the Executive Commission and the first Committee of Public Safety, from which he resigned on 5 May. He left for London before the Bloody Week and was sentenced to death in absentia. After the 1880 amnesty he returned, was elected deputy for the Bouches-du-Rhône in 1888 and sat on the far left, and died in 1889.
Activities and affiliations
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1848–1849
France state institutionsMember of the Constituent and Legislative Assemblies
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1848–1849
The Mountain (Democratic Socialists, 1848–1851)
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1864–
International Workingmen's Association (First International)
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1871
Paris Commune (1871)Commune member and member of the Committee of Public SafetyHeads of state and government of FranceMain
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1888–1889
France state institutionsDeputy for the Bouches-du-Rhône
Legislature and state representation
Career Timeline
- 1848.02.29–04.23Commissioner of the Republic for the Cher
- 1848–1849Member of the Constituent and Legislative Assemblies (the Mountain)
- 1849–1870Exile in Switzerland, Belgium and England
- 1871.03.26–05.28Member of the Paris Commune council and its Executive Commission
- 1871.05.01–05Member of the Committee of Public Safety of the Paris Commune
- 1888.03–1889.08.03Deputy for the Bouches-du-Rhône