biography
| name: |
Vallès, Jules (-Louis-Joseph)
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pronunciation:
[valez]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1832–85)
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| biography:
| Socialist journalist and novelist, born in Le-Puy-en-Velay, SC France. He left the École Normale for politics, and soon became a popular and controversial journalist in the 1850s, with his sympathetic descriptions of the poor and his attacks on the French bourgeoisie. He rose up against the Coup d'Etat of 1851, published L'Argent (1856) in Nantes, and founded La Rue (1857), which was banned the following year. He became a member of the Commune of Paris of 1871, and in the same year founded Le Cri du Peuple, which became one of France's leading socialist newspapers. Following suppression of the Commune, he fled to England, returning after the amnesty of 1880. His best work is the trilogy of autobiographical novels entitled Jacques Vingtras (1879–86). |
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