Rochefort, Henri

(1831-1913) (Henri, marquis de Rochefort-Luçay)

   political figure

   Born in Paris, Henri, marquis de Rochefort-Luçay, or Henri Rochefort as he is known, began his political journalism career early and held republican views hostile to the second empire. Forced to leave lefigaro, he founded La Lanterne (1868), and, after a brief exile in Brussels, Belgium, La Marseillaise (1869). He took a position in favor of the Paris commune (1871) and was condemned to deportation to New Caledonia (1872). He escaped with some comrades in 1874 and settled in Geneva, switzerland, until the amnesty of 1880. upon returning to France, he founded L'Intransigeant, a republican journal. A deputy (1885), he became a nationalist and a supporter of General georges boulanger, whom he followed to Brussels before The Thinker, by Auguste Rodin (Library of Congress) going to London. Rochefort's principal writings include Les Français de la décadence (1866), Les Dépravés (1875), L'Évadé (1880), L'Aventure de ma vie (1895-96).