Armand Barbès

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Armand Barbès
Drab by Armand Barbès in Villalier

Sigismond Auguste Armand Barbès (born September 18, 1809 in Pointe-à-Pitre , † June 26, 1870 in The Hague ) was a revolutionary French republican.

Life

Born on the island of Guadeloupe , Barbès received his education at the College of Sorèze and studied law in Paris from 1832 . With the death of his parents he became the master of an important property by inheriting an estate near Carcassonne . He became a member of several secret societies, such as the radical Société des droits de l'homme and later (from 1838) the Société des saisons , which he headed together with Louis-Auguste Blanqui . He was also a supporter and contributor to several Republican journals. In 1834 he was arrested for the first time when a revolutionary appeal was circulated and, after his release in early 1835, appeared among the defenders of those charged with inciting a riot in April 1834. In March 1836 he was arrested again and sentenced to a year imprisonment for secretly producing powder. The amnesty law of May 8, 1837 led to his release.

At the side of Blanqui, Barbès played a leading role in the uprising against King Louis-Philippe , which took place in Paris on May 12, 1839. Barbès led the insurgents in the attack on the Palace of Justice and the town hall . The insurrection failed, however, and killed over 70 people. Barbès was wounded and taken during the fight. The Peers spoke about him on July 12, 1839, the death penalty, not so much because of its role as one of the main authors of the revolt because as the author of the murder of Lieutenant Drouineau. Despite the opposition of the ministers of Louis-Philippe, he was pardoned to life imprisonment at the request of the Duke of Orléans and his wife and Victor Hugos , which he served in the Mont-Saint-Michel state prison.

Barbès was released in the February Revolution of 1848 and went to Paris in March. However, he now had a tense relationship with his old comrade Blanqui and was getting closer to the provisional government, which appointed him governor of the Palais du Luxembourg and colonel of the 12th Legion of the Paris National Guard . In April he was elected a member of the constituent national assembly in the Aude department . When Blanqui and others tried to dissolve the National Assembly on May 15, 1848 and tried to set up a new government, Barbès took the side of his former party comrades again. The rebellion failed, however, and Barbès was arrested, taken to Vincennes and sentenced by the State Court of Bourges on April 2, 1849 to life deportation, which was converted into life incarceration.

Barbès, who had written the pamphlet Deux jours de condamnation à mort , a kind of political testament, in 1848 , was now in an underground prison on Belle-Isle until October 1854, when Napoleon III. ordered his release. The reason for this was a private letter from Barbès which had come to the public and in which he had expressed his joy at French military victories. However, Barbès did not want to accept a pardon from the emperor and only came to Paris to protest his release and to make himself available to the court. Since this took no notice of him, he voluntarily went into exile in the Netherlands . Then he went to Barcelona , Spain, but was expelled here in May 1856. He then stayed in Cádiz , then again in The Hague, where he died on June 26, 1870 in the Aller of 60, just a few weeks before the fall of the Second Empire and the time of the Paris Commune .

The Boulevard Barbès in the 18th arrondissement was named after his name in Paris .

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SURNAME Barbès, Armand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barbès, Sigismond Auguste Armand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION revolutionary French republican
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Pointe-à-Pitre
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1870
Place of death The hague