Sujet

Portrait of Frédéric Cournet, French journalist who worked for the newspaper "Le Réveil", 1871. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Portrait of Frédéric Cournet (Frédéric Etienne Cournet) (1837-1885), French journalist who worked for the newspaper "Le Réveil", 1871. He took part in the defence of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) commanding a battalion of the National Guard. Member of the Paris Commune in March 1871. After the end of the Commune he fled to Great Britain and was condemned to death. In November 1871 he was elected member of the General Council of the First International. After the amnesty of 1880 Cournet returned to France, became one of the leaders of the Blanquists in Lyon and Paris and took up journalism again. From "Historia de la Guerra de Francia y Prusia" (History of the War between France and Prussia, Vol II, published in Barcelona, 1871.

Date

1871

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/PRISMA ARCHIVO FOTOGRÁFICO, S.L.

Notre référence

HRM25A49_468

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Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,7Mo (4,3Mo) / 31,1cm x 40,9cm / 3669 x 4831 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Europe portrait people male looking man men head historical arts politics country French France law book guy serious continent European political war location century moustache rebellion newspapers press revolution literature concept B&W one person head and shoulders mustache facial hair looking away journalist engraved engraving journalism Socialist death sentence 19th century black & white black and white B W 1870s nineteenth century history historic 1870-1871 exile exiled Franco-Prussian War National Guard Paris Commune Garde Nationale newspaper engraving portrait Unknown Frederic 1871 19th-century historical person historic figure Prisma Archivo Fotografico War of 1870 Historia de la Guerra de Francia y Prusia History of the War between France and Prussia Luis Fiol y Gros Gros Luis Fiol y First International Blanquism Blanquist Democratic socialism Le Reveil Le Réveil Socialist International Frederic Cournet Cournet Fr?d?ric Cournet