Victor Henri Rochefort, Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay

Henri Rochefort, actually Victor -Henri, marquis de Rochefort- Luçay, ( born January 31, 1830 in Paris, † June 13, 1913 in Aix -les- Bains ) was a French writer, journalist, playwright and politician. 1863 editor of Le Figaro, the leading opponents of Dreyfus; typical representative of the polemical pamphlet.

Rochefort was 1868, the radical weekly newspaper " La Lanterne " out, 1869 Member of the Legislative Body, sentenced in 1870 for his attacks on the imperial family to prison, took in 1871 in the uprising of the Paris Commune in part, deported in 1873 to New Caledonia, fled in 1874 to London, returned 1880 back to Paris, fought since then in the " Intransigeant " the government, trailers Georges Boulanger, 1889 sentenced again, fled to London, returned back in 1895.

Henri Rochefort was portrayed by numerous artists. Gustave Courbet drew two of them as Brustbildnis. Similarly, also Giovanni Boldini Rochefort presented dar. From Édouard Manet there is next to a half-profile image also two paintings depicting his escape from New Caledonia. Armand Gautier showed Rochefort in his prison cell and Aime Jules Dalou created a bronze bust of him.

Works

  • Les Français de la decadence. Librairie centrale, Paris 1866-68 (3 volumes with its main products)
  • La Grande Boheme. Librairie centrale, Paris 1867
  • Les Dépravés: Roman de moeurs contemporaines. L. Hudrey, Geneva 1875
  • L' Aurore boréale. 1878
  • L' Evade: roman canaque. Charpentier, Paris 1880
  • Les Naufrageurs: roman parisien. Jules Rouff, Paris 1881
  • Retour de la Nouvelle Caledonia: Noumea De en Europe. Jules Rouff, Paris 1881
  • Les aventures de ma vie. Paul Dupont, Paris 1896 ( autobiography, 5 volumes)

Revisions

  • L' Evade: roman canaque. Editions Viviane Hamy, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-87858-043-5
  • Les aventures de ma vie. Mercure de France, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-7152-2516-4 (published by Paul Lidsky )
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