Auguste-Jean-Marie Vermorel

Auguste Jean Marie Vermorel and born with Denicé (the Rhone) in 1841 and died of its wounds with Versailles in 1871. It is a personality of the Commune of Paris.

Journalist, it founds the newspaper Young France in 1861. Then he becomes the editor association of the French Courrier and collaborates in the Réforme where he propagates the socialist ideas which are worth sorrows of imprisonment to him. He also publishes the Man of 1848 (in 1868), the Men of 1851 (in 1869) and the Socialist party (in 1870). He publishes also texts of Danton, Robespierre and Marat.

He is released from prison by the proclamation of the Republic on September 4th, 1870. But he is imprisoned for his participation in the rising of October 31st, 1870 against the policy of the Gouvernement of National defense. After the end of the head office of Paris by the Germans (September 1870 - March 1871), it is withdrawn in province, but returns to Paris after rising communalist of March 18th, 1871. March 26th he is elected with the Conseil of the Commune by the XVIIIe district; he sits at the commission of Justice, then at the executive commission and finally with that of the General security. He makes appear two newspapers, the Order and the Friend of the People , each one stopped after four numbers. He votes against the creation of the Comité of public Hello. During the bloody Semaine it fights on the barricades where it is seriously wounded on May 25th, 1871. It is transferred as prisoner in Versailles, where it dies slowly for lack of care.

Sources

Bernard Christmas, Dictionary of the Commune, Flammarion, collection Fields; 1978

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