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Born August 4, 1838 • Paris • France
Died April 3, 1871 (aged 32) • Chatou • France
Role In Commune of Paris
Catherine Arnauld
French nun
Adolphe Thiers
Adolphe Thiers
French statesman and historian
Charles Delescluze
French revolutionary figure
Pyat, lithograph by C. Deshayes
Félix Pyat
French journalist and politician
Galliffet, detail from a portrait by I. Pils, 1864; in the Musée de l'Armée, Paris
Gaston-Alexandre-Auguste, marquis de Galliffet
French military officer
Charles-Théophile Ferré
French politician
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Serge Klarsfeld
French political activist
Pierre Ayraut
French jurist
Bernard Chauvelin
French lawyer
François-Ambroise Didot
French printer and typesetter
Jules-Clément Chaplain
French artist
Charles Couperin
French composer
Jean de Brunhoff
French author
George de Benneville
American religious leader
Jacques Anquetil
French cyclist
Arnaud-Michel d’Abbadie
French geographer
François Didot
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Caresse Crosby
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Louis-Alexandre Chatrian
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