Access: the tomb is on the front line at the junction of Chemin Casimir Delavigne and Avenue Transversale n. 1 (Div . 49)

Journalist and politician. - Took part in the 1830 and 1848 revolutions. - Deported (1852-1860). - Founder of numerous newspapers in France and Belgium. - Elected deputy for the Seine to the National Assembly in 1870. After voting against the peace preliminaries, he left the Bordeaux assembly and accepted his appointment as a member of the Paris Commune for the 11th arrondissement. He was a member of the first Executive Commission. He was appointed a member of the Comité de salut public and succeeded Rossel at the Ministry of War.

On Thursday 25 May, he walked down Boulevard Voltaire and, not without some effort, climbed, unarmed, onto the barricade in front of the Place du Château d'Eau. "On his uncovered chest, the red scarf with gold fringe of a member of the Commune marked him out as a target for the enemy massed two hundred meters away" He was soon riddled with bullets. The following day, during the night, his body was taken to the North Cemetery. Then, thanks to his close friends, his remains were transferred to Père-Lachaise, where his grave symbolises a barricade.

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