Jean Maitron
Jean Maitron (17 December 1910 – 16 November 1987) was a French historian specialist of the labour movement. A pioneer of such historical studies in France, he introduced it to University and gave it its archives base, by creating in 1949 the '' ...
, article completed by Marianne Enckell, ''Dictionnaire Maitron en ligne'' and an unknown mother. He went to Paris during the Second Empire to learn painting. From 1855 to 1861 he was a pupil at the École polonaise de Paris at
Batignolles
Batignolles () is a neighbourhood of Paris, part of its 17th arrondissement. The neighbourhood is bounded on the south by the Boulevard des Batignolles, on the east by the Avenue de Clichy, on the north by Rue Cardinet and on the west by the Ru ...
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He took part in the Paris Commune in 1871. As the secretary of Raoul Rigault, he was with him on 23 May 1871 when he was imprisoned in the
, at the moment when Gustave Chaudey, a former deputy mayor (''adjoint'') of Paris, was executed together with three gendarmes, the next day in the hôtel of the Rue Gay-Lussac, and when Rigault himself was shot dead by Versailles troops in the same street. After the Bloody Week () in May 1871, he was sentenced to death by the Versailles army who accused him of inciting the Gardes nationaux to execute the three hostage gendarmes.
He managed to escape and took refuge in Switzerland, in Geneva. He settled in Lausanne and became the companion in misfortune of
Eugène Protot
Louis Charles Eugène Protot (27 January 1839 –17 February 1921) was a French lawyer (''avocat'') and a political opponent of the Second French Empire, Second Empire. During the Paris Commune in 1871, he was Minister of Justice (France), m ...
L'Illustration
''L'Illustration'' was a weekly French language, French newspaper published in Paris from 1843 to 1944. It was founded by Édouard Charton with the first issue published on 4 March 1843, it became the first illustrated newspaper in France then, a ...
Paris Colonial Exhibition
The Paris Colonial Exhibition (or "''Exposition coloniale internationale''", International Colonial Exhibition) was a six-month colonial exhibition held in Paris, France, in 1931 that attempted to display the diverse cultures and immense resour ...
Maurice Rollinat
Maurice Rollinat (December 29, 1846 in Châteauroux, Indre – October 26, 1903 in Ivry-sur-Seine) was a French poet and musician.
Early works
His father represented Indre in the National Assembly of 1848, and was a friend of George Sand, whose i ...
Olympic diploma
An Olympic diploma is a paper certificate awarded to the top eight finishers in competitions at the Olympic Games.
The practice of awarding diplomas has existed from the start of the modern Olympic Games in 1896, at first being awarded only to th ...
890
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Year 890 ( DCCCXC) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* The Frankish nobles, who have ruled Provence in anarchy (since 887), declare Lo ...
890
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Year 890 ( DCCCXC) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* The Frankish nobles, who have ruled Provence in anarchy (since 887), declare Lo ...
* Jeanne Cazin, ''Les aventures de Jean Le Savoyard: scènes de la montagne'', Hachette, 1891
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Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen ( , ; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales.
Andersen's fairy tales, consisti ...
, ''Contes'', translation by Jules Gourdault, Hachette, 1892
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Albert Cim
Albert-Antoine Cimochowski, called Albert Cim, (22 October 1845 – 8 May 1924) was a French novelist, literary critic and bibliographer.
Biography
Born to a French mother and a Polish officer who fled to France after the 1830 November Uprisin ...