Edmond Bazire

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Edmond Bazire (photography by Bacard fils)

Edmond Bazire (born February 9, 1846 in Rouen ; died June 29, 1892 in Paris ) was a French journalist and writer .

Life

Bazire came to Paris from Rouen in 1869 and initially worked as a journalist for the La Réforme newspaper . In addition, he was one of the authors of the La Marsaillaise newspaper, which was founded in 1869 . On February 8, 1870, Bazire was arrested and sentenced to six months in prison after he was in the Jardin des Tuileries in the presence of the Emperor Napoleon III who was present . Vive la République ( Long Live the Republic ) had proclaimed. During the siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune , Bazire stayed in the French capital. He then feared being politically persecuted as a supporter of the Commune in France, and in the spring of 1871 he went abroad, initially in Switzerland and Italy. He then settled in Austria and worked in Vienna for the French-language newspaper Le Danube, which appeared there . In Brussels he published the comedy La Bercuse in 1876 . In 1877 he returned to France and subsequently worked for Paris newspapers such as L'Homme libre , Le Rappel and L'Intransigeant . In addition to political articles, he also wrote art reviews under the pseudonym Edmond Jacques . He also published several poems under various other pseudonyms. He also wrote biographies about Henri Rochefort and his friend Édouard Manet .

Works (selection)

  • Une Conspiration en 1868 , Armand, Paris 1868.
  • La berceuse; comédie en un acte et en vers , Blanche, Brussels 1876.
  • Henri Rochefort , Quantin, Paris 1883.
  • Manet, illustrations d'après les originaux et gravures de Guérard , Quantin, Paris 1884.
  • Charbons ardents , Calmann Lévy, Paris 1889.

literature

  • Angelo De Gubernatis: Dictionnaire international des écrivains du jour . Louis Niccolai, Florence 1888

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