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GUSTAVE See also:PAUL See also:CLUSERET (1823-1900)
, See also:French soldier and politician, was See also:born at See also:Paris
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He was an officer in the garde See also:mobile during the revolution of 1848
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He took See also:part in several expeditions in See also:Algeria, joined See also:Garibaldi's See also:volunteers in 186o, and in 1861 resigned his See also:commission to take part in the See also:Civil See also:War in See also:America
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He served under See also:Fremont and McClellan, and See also:rose to the See also:rank of See also:general
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Then, joining a See also:band of Irish adventurers, he went secretly to See also:Ireland, and participated in the Fenian insurrection (1866-67)
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He escaped See also:arrest on the collapse of the See also:movement, but was condemned to See also:death in his See also:absence
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On his return to See also:France he proclaimed himself a Socialist, opposed militarism, and became a member of the Association internationale See also:des travailleurs, a See also:cosmopolitan Socialist organization, known as the " Internationale." On the See also:proclamation of the Third See also:Republic in 1871 he set to See also:work to organize the social revolution, first at See also:Lyons and afterwards at See also:Marseilles
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His See also:energy, his oratorical gifts, and his military experience gave him See also:great See also:influence among the working classes
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On the See also:news of the communist rising of the 18th of See also: In 1888 and 1889 he was returned as a See also:deputy to the chamber by See also:Toulon . He died in 1900 . See also:Cluseret published his Memoires (of the Commune) at Paris in 1887-1888 . |
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