LOUIS

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• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

CHARLES

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• LOUIS CHARLES DELESCLUZE (1809–1871)

DELESCLUZE (1809–1871)  , French journalist, was born at Dreux on the and of October 1809 . Having studied law in Paris, he early developed a strong democratic bent, and played a part in the July revolution of r83o . He became a member of various republican societies, and in 1836 was forced to take refuge in Belgium, where he devoted himself to republican journalism . Returning in 184o he settled in Valenciennes, and after the revolution of 1848 removed to Paris, where he started a newspaper called La Revolution democratique et sociale . His zeal so far outran his discretion that he was twice imprisoned and fined, his paper was suppressed and he himself fled to England, where he continued his journalistic work . He was arrested in Paris in 18J3, and deported to French Guiana . Released under the amnesty of 1859, he returned to France with health shattered but energies unimpaired . His next venture was the publication of the Reveil, a radical organ upholding the principles of the Association internationale des travailleurs, known as the " Internationale." This journal, which brought him three condemnations, fine and imprisonment in one year, shared the fate of his Paris sheet, and its founder again fled to Belgium . In 1871 he was elected to the National Assembly, becoming afterwards a member of the Paris commune . At the siege of Paris he fought with reckless courage, and met his death on the last of the barricades (May 1871) . He wrote an account of his imprisonment in Guiana, De Paris a Cayenne, Journal d'un transports (Paris, 1869) .