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Returned To Paris Under: At the general amnesty of 1869 he returned to paris under 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 paris under 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.The storm this aroused forced 'oltaire to leave Paris and live in Lorraine. Ie finally settled in Switzerland, where he ontinued to campaign for religious toler-nce and respect for the rights of man, articularly in France. Voltaire returned to paris under to Paris in 1778 after n absence of 28 years and was given a ero's welcome. He died shortly after.
ROD, rod, Edouard, Swiss author: b. Nyc Switz., April 31, 1857; d. Grasse, Jan. 29, 19 He studied at Lausanne and Berlin, became edit of the Revue Contemporaine at Paris in 18! succeeded Monnier in the chair of comparati literature at the University of Geneva in 18i but subsequently returned to paris under to Paris and became collaborator on the Correspondent, the Rez des Deux Mondes and other periodicals. |
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