Raoul Urbain

Raoul Urbain was born with Condé-sur-Noireau (Calvados) in 1837 and died in Paris in 1902. It is a personality of the Commune of Paris.

Wire of teacher, teacher him even, he teaches initially in the village of Grinds, close to Caen, then at the democratic Elementary school of the street of Verneuil to Paris.

During the head office of Paris by the Germans (September 1870 - March 1871), he enlists in the National guard and militates with the club of the Pre-with-Clerk. He belongs to the republican Central committee of the Twenty districts. During the Rising of March 18th, 1871, it occupies the town hall of VIIe district. March 26th, 1871, he is elected with the Conseil of the Commune by VIIe district; he sits at the commission of Teaching, then with that of the Foreign relations and to that of the War. He votes for the creation of the Comité of public Hello. He is in favor solved execution of the hostages. After the bloody Week, it is stopped, and is condemned to the forced labors with perpetuity by the council of War. It returns to Paris after the amnesty of 1880, and deals with the co-operative movement.

Sources

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

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