Marc Caussidière

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Marc Caussidière, 1848

Marc Caussidière (French pronunciation:

French republican movement
of the first half of the nineteenth century.

Biography

Caussidière was born in Geneva. Employed at Saint-Étienne, he took part in the Lyon insurgency of 1834 (in which his brother died). He was sentenced to 20 years in detention but he was pardoned in 1837. Afterward he became a broker and also distributed wines during his travels with the progressive newspaper La Réforme.

During the

June Days Uprising
, he was forced to flee and took refuge in England and the USA where he resumed his activities as a wine broker. Sentenced in absentia to deportation by the High Court of Justice Bourges for his participation in the demonstration on 15 May 1848, he returned to France after the amnesty of 1859.

He wrote Memoirs.[1] He died, aged 52, in Paris.

See also

References

  1. ^ Caussidière, Marc (1848-01-01). Memoirs.

Sources