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Henri Rochefort
From: Olga's Gallery
Henri de Rochefort, Marquis de Rochefort
Lucay (1830-1913) civil servant and critic, Sub-inspector of the Paris
Beaux-Arts. He was condemned under military law to life- imprisonment for
his support of the Commune and exiled to New Caledonia in 1873. Four months
later he and some other convicts escaped in a whale boat. He lived in Geneva
and London until the amnesty made his return to Paris possible, and shortly
thereafter he founded a new paper, L’Intransigiant. Ironically, the radical
Rochefort later became a follower of General Boulanger and leader of the
anti-Dreyfusands.
(Olga's
Gallery)
Manet painted him
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