Jules Vallès

Jules Vallès was born in Le Puy-en-Velay on 11 June 1832, the son of a teacher. Having come to Paris, he made a name for himself as a journalist, notably at Le Figaro, and founded Le Cri du peuple. Elected to the Paris Commune in 1871, he made his way to London after the crushing of the uprising, was sentenced to death in absentia and lived in exile until the amnesty. Back in France, he relaunched his newspaper in 1883 and died in Paris on 14 February 1885.

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• NovelThe ChildL'EnfantJules Vallès · 1879LiteraturePublic domain