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Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray

Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray
Independent activity Revolutionary socialism France France 1838–1901 ○ Natural causes

Journalist who fought on the Commune’s last barricade and wrote the History of the Paris Commune of 1871 in exile

French revolutionary socialist journalist Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray took part in the Paris Commune and wrote its history from survivor testimony and documents.

Born in Toulouse to a Basque family, he was a republican lecturer and journalist under the Second Empire and was prosecuted several times. During the 1870 war he joined the military organisation of the provincial government of National Defence, and during the Commune he published the papers L’Action and Le Tribun du peuple in Paris. He fought to the last barricade in Belleville in Bloody Week, escaped to London, grew close to the Marx family and was engaged to Eleanor Marx. He published his History of the Paris Commune of 1871 in Brussels in 1876 and, after the 1880 amnesty, returned to edit La Bataille.

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  • 1871Took part in the Paris Commune and founded and edited L’Action and Le Tribun du peuple.
  • 1876Published the first edition of History of the Paris Commune of 1871, drawing on survivors’ testimony and contemporary documents.
  • 1881–1889Edited La Bataille as editor-in-chief.