Tombeau de Jules Vallès au Père Lachaise (photographie : Antonio Ca'Zorzi, 2019)
Jules Vallès (1832 - 1885)
Gustave Courbet, Portrait de Jules Vallès, 1861, huile sur toile, Musée Carnavalet, Paris
Access: to reach the Vallès tomb from the Flourens tomb, continue along the Chemin d'Ornano and after about ten metres you will see a small alley between the tombs on the left (well before you reach the Avenue des Peupliers). Take this path, then turn right and left again. After about ten metres, you will find the tomb on your right. It is in the second row from Avenue des Peupliers. (Div. 66)
Born in 1832, and already involved in the events of 1848, he became a journalist, founding politically committed newspapers (La Rue, Le Peuple), and was imprisoned twice. He was one of the editors of "L'Affiche rouge" in January 71, then founded Le Cri du Peuple in February, which was published until the end of the Commune, of which Vallès was one of the elected representatives in the 15th arrondissement.
Threatened with death and exiled until 1880, he pursued a career as a writer whose work was largely autobiographical. The embodiment of an existential revolt, and above all a rebel, "L'Insurgé" died in Paris in 1885.
