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DELESCLUZE, LOUIS CHARLES (1809–1871)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 953 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DELESCLUZE, See also:LOUIS See also:CHARLES (1809–1871) , See also:French journalist, was See also:born at See also:Dreux on the and of See also:October 1809. Having studied See also:law in See also:Paris, he See also:early See also:developed a strong democratic See also:bent, and played a See also:part in the See also:July revolution of r83o. He became a member of various republican See also:societies, and in 1836 was forced to take See also:refuge in See also:Belgium, where he devoted himself to republican journalism. Returning in 184o he settled in See also:Valenciennes, and after the revolution of 1848 removed to Paris, where he started a newspaper called La Revolution democratique et sociale. His zeal so far outran his discretion that he was twice imprisoned and fined, his See also:paper was suppressed and he himself fled to See also:England, where he continued his journalistic See also:work. He was arrested in Paris in 18J3, and deported to French See also:Guiana. Released under the See also:amnesty of 1859, he returned to See also:France with See also:health shattered but energies unimpaired. His next venture was the publication of the Reveil, a See also:radical See also:organ upholding the principles of the Association internationale See also:des travailleurs, known as the " Internationale." This See also:journal, which brought him three condemnations, See also:fine and imprisonment in one See also:year, shared the See also:fate of his Paris See also:sheet, and its founder again fled to Belgium. In 1871 he was elected to the See also:National See also:Assembly, becoming afterwards a member of the Paris See also:commune. At the See also:siege of Paris he fought with reckless courage, and met his See also:death on the last of the barricades (May 1871). He wrote an See also:account of his imprisonment in Guiana, De Paris a See also:Cayenne, Journal d'un transports (Paris, 1869).

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