Louis-Auguste Rogeard

Auguste Louis Rogeard was born with Chartres (Eure-et-Loir) in 1820 and died in Paris in 1896. It is adverse with the Second empire and a personality of the Commune of Paris.

Raise National university of Paris, arts doctor, it is revoked for its refusal to lend the oath of fidelity to the Emperor Napoleon III. He gives particular lessons and courses in an private establishment. In 1863, it publishes a collection of Latin quotations to republican tendencies. In 1864, it creates the newspaper the Left bank where it writes, in 1865, the Propos of Labienus , satire of the imperial mode which have a great influence on the students of the Second empire. It must take refuge in Belgium, then to the Luxembourg and finally to London and is condemned to five years of prison by contumacy.

It returns to France after the proclamation of the Republic in September 1870. He collaborates in the newspapers of Felix Pyat, the Combat and the Avenger of which he is editor association. With the elections complementary of April 16th, 1871 1, he is elected with the Conseil of the Commune by the Life district. But he resigns judging the number of his voters too weak. After the bloody Week, it takes refuge in Alsace then with Vienna in Austria from where it is expelled in August 1873. He becomes tutor in a noble family close to Budapest in Hungary. The Council of French War condemns it to death in absentia. It does not return to France that after the amnesty of 1880. It lives there in poverty.

Sources

Bernard Christmas, Dictionary of Al Commune, Flammarion, collection Fields, 1978

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