This member of the Paris Commune wrote, in June 1871, just after the crushing of the uprising, the words of a song that would become the anthem of the international workers' movement, though it only found success after his death. What is this song?
The answer
Eugène Pottier wrote the words of ‘The Internationale’ in June 1871, in hiding after the crushing of the Commune. The text was only set to music the year after his death in 1887, and the song only became the anthem of the international workers' movement decades later. Pottier rests in Division 95.
This question belongs to the “The Paris Commune” series of the Père-Lachaise quiz: ten questions, a story behind every right answer.