Charles Longuet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Charles Longuet

French politician

Date of Birth: 14-Feb-1839

Place of Birth: Caen, Normandy, France

Date of Death: 05-Aug-1903

Profession: politician, translator, communard, journalist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Charles Longuet

  • Charles Longuet (14 February 1839, Caen – 5 August 1903, Paris) was a journalist and prominent figure in the French working-class movement, including the 1871 Paris Commune, as well as a Proudhonist member of the General Council of the First International or International Working Men's Association (1866–67, 1871–72).
  • He served as Corresponding Secretary for Belgium (1866), delegate to the Lausanne (1867), Brussels (1868), the London Conference (1871) and the (1872).
  • He was also the editor of the publication Journal Officiel.Longuet participated in the Paris Commune of 1871 and, after its defeat, moved to England as a refugee where he met Karl Marx.
  • Longuet married Marx's eldest daughter, Jenny, on 2 October 1872 in London (in a civil ceremony).
  • Together, they had six children, the first five of whom were boys, the last a daughter.
  • Two of the sons died in infancy.
  • Of the others, Jean, a journalist and Edgar, a physician, both became prominent socialist activists in France.Longuet returned to France, after a political amnesty granted by the French government in July 1880.
  • Here he took a position as an editor of La Justice, a radical daily newspaper founded by Georges Clemenceau.
  • His wife and children joined him in February 1881, the family settling in the town of Argenteuil, near Paris.
  • Here Jenny died in January 1883, probably from cancer of the bladder.
  • Two months later her father, Karl Marx, died; Longuet was one of the speakers at his funeral.Charles Longuet died in Paris on 5 August 1903 at the age of 64.
  • He was buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery.

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