Doctor. He took part in the Commune. He took refuge in Barcelona, then in Switzerland. He became a member of the First International and was active in the Jura Federation. He then questioned the political abstentionism and isolation of anarchists from the rest of the socialist and workers' movement. He then joined the possibilist (reformist) socialists. He wrote the song "The Red Flag".

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Engraver. Member of the First International. He took part in the 1848 revolution (February and June movements). He was a member of the Central Committee of the twenty arrondissements. Imprisoned, then released after 5 months' imprisonment. Town councillor for the 19th arrondissement.

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Poet, journalist and songwriter. He published his first song at the age of 23. During the Commune, elected by the 13th arrondissement to the Commune Council, he took part in the public services and supplies committee, and was delegated to manufacture munitions. He contributed to the Cri du peuple "by Jules Vallès. He fought during the bloody week. Sentenced to death, he went into exile. In 1882, he wrote the song "Le temps des cerises", which was dedicated to the ambulance driver Louise.

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Hatter. During the Commune, he took part in the capture of the Lobau barracks and City Hall. Socialist deputy for the Seine from 1893 to 1898.

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Journalist, economist, essayist, writer, socialist politician. Met Proudhon after studying medicine. Presented "The State of the French Socialist Movement" to PL Cemetery - Pascal Fabérot.mp3 1865. He met Engels and Marx, whose second daughter Laura he married. During the Paris Commune, he was sent to Bordeaux to organise support for the Paris movement. He was imprisoned at Sainte Pélagie. In 1883, he wrote the "Droit à la paresse". In 1911, having set himself an age limit of 70, he committed suicide with his wife in Draveil.

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He joined the Association of Socialist Teachers and was sentenced to 3 months in prison. Forbidden to teach, he stayed in London, opposing Napoleon III's coup d'état. When the Republic was proclaimed on 4 September 1870, the 4th arrondissement of Paris sent him to the Central Committee of the Twenty Arrondissements, which opposed the government of National Defence. Elected to the council of the Commune. He was a member of the executive committee and then of the labour and finance committee. He fought on the barricades. Sentenced to death in absentia by the council of war. After the Bloody Week. He took refuge in Geneva and contributed to various anarchist newspapers. Publishes "Etude sur le mouvement communaliste de Paris" (Study on the communist mouvement in Paris). Eugène Pottier dedicated his poem "L'Internationale", set to music in 1888, to him.

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Dyer, self-taught. Member of the 1st International. He organised and took part in many struggles during the Second Empire. After 4 September, he was a member of the Central Committee of the twenty arrondissements and became deputy mayor of the XVIIth arrondissement. He was elected to the National Assembly on 8 February 1871, voted against the peace preliminaries and resigned. During the Commune, elected by the XVIIth arrondissement, he was a member of the labour and trade commission. He voted against the Committee of Public Safety. During the Bloody Week, he fought in Batignolles, went into exile in Switzerland and returned to France after the amnesty. Author of "The Third Defeat of the French Proletariat".

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Woodturner. Blanquist and member of the International Workers' Association. During the siege of Paris, he was captain of the 191st battalion of the National Guard. On 26 March he was elected to the Council of the Commune He was a member of the Public Services Committee and then the General Safety Committee. After the Bloody Week, he was sentenced to death in absentia by the Council of War and took refuge in London, where he continued to campaign in the Blanquist ranks.

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Born in Paris in 1840, he was a painter who exhibited in numerous salons before 1870. A Communard, he was a member of the Federation of Artists elected in April 1871 and fought on the barricades. Exiled to Geneva, he produced several paintings in honour of the Commune (Le Triomphe de l'ordre, La Veuve du fusillé, etc.). He died in Paris in 1893.

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Born in the Aisne in 1849, this master tailor opposed the Empire and fought against the Prussians in the Armée du Nord. He joined the Commune as an officer in the National Guard and took part in the defence of Fort de Vanves, before being wounded on a barricade. A trade unionist and contributor to several newspapers, he died in Paris in 1896 while serving as a deputy for the Seine (19th arrondissement) under the Parti Ouvrier Socialiste Révolutionnaire.

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Born in Poland in 1841, he was exiled to Paris in 1870 for having taken part in the Polish uprising of 1863. He joined the National Guard. He supported the Commune and became one of its generals in April 1871. He heroically defended the fortifications on the Left Bank and the Butte aux Cailles during the Bloody Week. Sentenced to death in 1872, exiled to London where he was a member of the  Council of the International Workers' Association. He returned to France in 1885 and died there in 1908.

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