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Commune Of Paris: At the general amnesty of 1869 he returned to France and became prominent among the Paris Communards, was named to the National Assembly at Bordeaux in 1871 and a member of the Commune. With the fall of the Commune he was sentenced to death and fled again to England but returned to France after the amnesty of 1880 and was elected, as a revolutionary socialist, to the chamber of deputies. Of his writings, the drama Le Chiffonnier de Paris (1847) is best known.At 17 he sent the poem Le Bateau Ivre to Paul Verlaine at Paris and was warmly invited to visit that poet, who hailed him as a genius—recognition that is still accorded him as a pioneer of the decadent, or symbolist, movement in France. He remained in Paris until 1872, dividing his time as the guest of Verlaine and of Theodore De Ban-ville, served in the army of the Commune, and afterwards left Paris with Verlaine.
In January of the following year he was imprisoned on a charge of inciting to insurrection. After the fall of the empire he became a member of the provisional government of national defense, but, out of sympathy with it, he inclined toward the radical element that produced the Commune of Paris. In May 1871, Rochefort fled from Paris, but he was captured and sentenced by a court-martial to deportation. |
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