This journalist, sentenced to death in absentia for his role in the 1871 Paris Commune, had to go into exile in London before returning under an amnesty. He wrote an autobiographical trilogy beginning with ‘The Child’. Who is he?
The answer
Jules Vallès took an active part in the Paris Commune in 1871 and had to flee to London to escape a death sentence. Having returned to France after the amnesty of 1880, he rests at Père-Lachaise, in Division 66.
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