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Henri Chazé
Henri Chazé (23 February 1904, in Chazé-Henry – 1984) was a French people, French communist. He was born Gaston Davoust in Chazé-Henry, whose name he reversed to form his pseudonym. His father, Eugène Davoust, was an anarchism, anarchist railway worker active in his union. He was an advocate of the general strike as advocated by Émile Pouget. When Henri was six, his father participated in a major strike by railway workers for weekly rest periods and a better pension. The strike was broken by troops taking over the depots and Eugène was sacked. The family was thrown on hard times and survived by his mother making corsets. His father was also an ardent freemason, as were his grandfather and brother, all affiliated to the Grand Orient of France. However, Henri found the initiation rituals degrading and the environment an example of the sort of organisation where men drawn from all sorts of classes would mix, creating opportunities for both the socially ambitious and spies of ...
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Chazé-Henry
Chazé-Henry () is a former commune in the Maine-et-Loire department of western France. On 15 December 2016, it was merged into the new commune Ombrée d'Anjou.Arrêté préfectoral
7 December 2016

Notable people from Chazé-Henry

Gaston Davout was born in Chazé-Henry, and created his pseudonym Henri Chazé by reversing the name of his birthplace.

Notable people from Chazé-Henry

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