Charles Beslay

Charles Victor Beslay was born with Dinan (Coast-of-North, currently Coast-with Armor) in 1795 and died in Neuchâtel (Swiss) in 1878. It is a personality of the Commune of Paris from which he is the oldest member.

Engineer, it is elected general adviser of the Morbihan in 1830. Then, in Paris, it founds a factory of steam engine, where it tries to apply the ideas of his friend Proudhon to the association of capital and labor. After the Revolution of 1848, the provisional government appoints it Commissaire of the Republic in the Morbihan. He is elected with the constituent Assembly, where he is in favor of repression against the risen of June 1848. He does not sit at the legislative Parliament. Under the Second Empire, it is ruined by creating a bank of exchange and discount according to the ideas proudhoniennes. It adheres in 1866, with the International association of the workers.

During the head office of Paris by the Germans (September 1870 - March 1871), he is delegated to the republican Central committee of the Twenty districts under the Life district. March 26th he is elected with the Conseil of the Commune by the Life district. March 29th he is Member of the Commission of Finances and becomes the delegate of the Commune at Banque de France. At the end of May 1871, thanks to one leave-to pass from the Government Thiers, it can take refuge in Switzerland after the failure of the Commune. In December 1872, the council of war returns a withdrawal of case in its opposition.

Sources

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

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