Access: if you have seen Victor Noir's grave, go back a few steps and take the path that crosses division 92 on your right (the same as Noir's grave). After 30-40 metres, on your left, you will see the bare grave of Charles Longuet (Dov. 92).

Politician, journalist, socialist activist. Became an opponent of the Second Empire in 1860. Published in English the statutes of the AIT drawn up by Marx, went into exile in Belgium and then England, where he became a Freemason. In 1870, during the siege of Paris, he became a member of the Central Committee of the 20 arrondissements and of the 248th battalion of National Guards. He was elected to the Conseil de la Commune by the XVIth arrondissement, became editor-in-chief of the Journal Officiel, and sat on the Commission du travail et de l'échange. He voted against the creation of the Comité de Salut Public. After the bloody week, he took refuge in London and was sentenced in absentia to deportation. He married Jenny, Karl Marx's eldest daughter. The couple had four children.

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