Charles Longuet

Charles Longuet was born with Caen (Calvados) in 1839 and died in Paris in 1903. It is a personality of the Commune of Paris.

In 1860, it comes to grant its Paris and becomes adverse with the Second empire. It founds the newspapers Écoles of France and Left bank where it publishes, in English, the preamble and the provisional statutes of the International association of the workers written by Karl Marx. Its political activities force it to be exiled in Belgium then in England, where it adheres to freemasonry. In 1866, he becomes secretary corresponding for Belgium to the General advice of the International one. He returns to Paris in 1870. During the head office of Paris by the Germans (September 1870 - March 1871) he becomes member of the republican Central committee of the Twenty districts and chief of the 248e battalion of the National guard. From March 27th to May 12th, he is editor association of the Official journal (edition of Paris)). With the elections complementary of April 16th he is elected with the Conseil of the Commune by XVIe district, he sits at the commission of Work and the Exchange. He votes against the creation of the Comité of public Hello. After the bloody Semaine it takes refuge in London. He is condemned to the deportation by contumacy by the Council of War. Become again member of the General advice of International it votes, in 1872, the exclusion of Michel Bakounine. The same year he marries Jenny, the oldest daughter of Karl Marx. In 1874, it is named professor in King' S College of Oxford. It returns to Paris after the amnesty of 1880, it collaborates in the newspaper Justice of Georges Clémenceau and is opposed to Jules Guesde in the diffusion of the Marxist ideas in France.

Internal bonds

Jean Longuet, his son (1876-1938)
Karl-Jean Longuet, his grandson (1904-1981)

External bonds

Portrait of Charles Longuet

Sources

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

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