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Joseph Déjacque
French writer (1821-1864) · France · On the map · Writers
Joseph Déjacque was a French political journalist and poet. A house painter by trade, during the 1840s, he became involved in the French labour movement and taught himself how to write poetry.
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Jeanne Deroin, depicted as leading the French Revolution of 1848, in The Uprising (L'Emeute) by Honoré Daumier
Gustave Lefrançais, a French anarchist with whom Déjacque lived during their exile in London
Karl Marx, whose German communist followers would make up the largest part of Déjacque's International Association
John Brown, a radical abolitionist whom Déjacque praised during his time in New Orleans
Front page of Le Libertaire, the newspaper established by Déjacque in New York
Benjamin Tucker, one of the first people to adopt the term "libertarian" from DéjacqueAbout this person
He was an active participant in the French Revolution of 1848, fighting on the barricades during the June Days uprising, for which he was arrested and imprisoned. He quickly became a target for political repression by Louis Napoleon Bonaparte's government, which imprisoned him for his poetry and forced him to flee into exile. His experiences radicalised him towards anarchism and he regularly criticised republican politicians for their anti-worker sentiment.
