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Constant Marie was born on 27 August 1838 in Sainte-Houvrince, Calvados.
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He was the author of several popular revolutionary songs. He began work as a bricklayer. He participated in the Paris Commune, and was wounded in the fighting at the Vanves fort.
Due to his injuries Constant Marie was forced to change occupation to become a shoemaker.
He became an anarchist and began to compose revolutionary songs. Within twelve years of the fall of the commune in 1871, Constant Marie"s songs had become very popular in some circles.
Constant Marie often performed at festivities of anarchist groups. He came to the attention of the police, who searched his house on 1 July 1894 and seized books and the texts of his songs.
He was arrested and charged with "membership of a criminal conspiracy." He spent several weeks in the Mazas Prison.
As a young man the anarchist, journalist and then Communist activist Fernand Desprès (1879–1949) worked as a shoemaker with Constant Marie. Constant Marie died on 5 August 1910.
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