Leo Frankel (1844 - 1896)


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Léo Frankel, photographe inconnu

Access: Take Avenue Transversale n. 3 down towards Avenue Circulaire. Halfway down, take the lane on your right and continue until you reach another minor lane. Turn left on this and go down another twenty metres or so, and on the left, behind the first line, is Frankel's tomb (Div. 96).

Goldsmith, member of the 1st International. During the siege, member of the national guard and of the central committee of the twenty arrondissements. During the Commune, he was a member of the Labour and Trade and Finance committees. He then became delegate for work. His main measures concerned the requisition of workshops abandoned by the bosses, the abolition of night work for bakers and the ban on deductions from wages. He supported the Comité de salut public (Committee of Public Safety) and then joined the minority. Wounded on 25 May on the barricades, he went into exile in Switzerland, then England.

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