Background
Louis Charles Delescluze was born at Dreux, Eure-et-Loir on the 2nd of October, 1809.
journalist military commander Revolutionary
Louis Charles Delescluze was born at Dreux, Eure-et-Loir on the 2nd of October, 1809.
Delescluze studied law in Paris.
His zeal so far outran his discretion that he was twice imprisoned and fined, his paper was suppressed and he himself fled to England, where he continued his journalistic work.
He early developed a strong democratic bent, and played a part in the July revolution of 1830.
He was arrested in Paris in 1853, and deported to French Guiana.
In 1871 he was elected to the National Assembly, becoming afterwards a member of the Paris commune.
He wrote an account of his imprisonment in Guiana, De Paris a Cayenne, Journal d'un transports (Paris, 1869).
Paris Commune