Charles Amouroux

Charles Amouroux was born in Chalabre (Aude) in 1843 and died in Paris in 1885. It is a personality of the Commune of Paris.

Workman hatter, it is an adverse active trade unionist with the Second Empire what is worth many judgments and the constrained one to him to exile itself in Belgium.

After the proclamation of the Republic, on September 4th, 1870, he is member of the National guard and is elected with his Central committee. He is member of the International association of the workers. He is elected with the Conseil of the Commune by the 4th district. He is named secretary of the Council, then is in charge of the Foreign relations. In this quality, it achieves missions in Lyon, Saint-Etienne, Marseilles and Toulouse. The Of Versailles ones stop it on May 21st, but it succeeds in escaping from the pontoon in roads of Brest. Begun again, he is condemned, in June 1872, with the forced labors with perpetuity and deportee in New Caledonia.

In 1878, it takes part in the repression of the Révolte of Canaques and is pardoned in May 1880. Returned to France he becomes journalist with the Watchword then to the Radical . In 1881, it is elected city council man district of Charonne in Paris. In May 1885, he is elected appointed of extreme-left by the department of the Loire. He dies of phitsy a few weeks afterwards.

External bonds

See a portrait of Charles Amouroux

Sources

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

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