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ARTHUR See also: born at See also: Poitiers on the loth of See also: December 1831, and was educated for the See also: law
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Implicated in a See also: plot against See also: Napoleon III. in 1853, he was acquitted, but shortly afterwards was imprisoned for belonging to a secret society; for his share in See also: anti-imperialist conspiracies in 1855 he was arrested and deported to See also: Algeria without a trial
.
The amnesty of 18J9 permitted him to return to See also: Paris, where he soon See also: drew the See also: attention of the police to his presence by his violent articles
.
During the siege of Paris he See also: left the city in a See also: balloon and joined See also: Gambetta, for whom he organized a See also: system of spies through which General See also: Trochu was kept informed of the strength and disposition of the Prussians around Paris
.
He was elected to the See also: National See also: Assembly in See also: February 1871, but resigned rather than subscribe to the See also: peace
.
He had been elected mayor of the ninth arrondissement of Paris in the autumn of 187o, and in See also: March was sent by the same
See also: district to the Commune, from which he resigned when he found no reconciliation was possible between the mayors and the Commune
.
In See also: July he became a member of the municipal council of Paris, and in 1873 was returned to the National Assembly for the department of the Rhone, and took his place on the extreme Left
.
A See also: month after his election the governor of Paris demanded his See also: prosecution for his share in the Commune
.
The claim being granted by a large majority, he
escaped to Belgium, where he issued a pamphlet defending his See also: action during the Commune
.
On his failure to appear before the See also: court he was condemned to See also: death, and remained in Belgium until 1879, when he was included in the amnesty proclaimed by Grevy
.
During his exile he continued his active collaboration bn La Republique francaise
.
In 1873 he fought a duel with See also: Paul de Cassagnac, and he acted as second to See also: Clemenceau more than once
.
He energetically defended the republic against the Boulangist agitation, and took an equally courageousSee also: part in the See also: Dreyfus affair
.
In the Picquart-See also: Henry duel he was second to Colonel Picquart
.
He succeeded Clemenceau as editor of the Aurore, in which Zola's letter " J'accuse " had appeared, and was president of the Association of Republican Journalists
.
In 1903 he became senator for
See also: Corsica, and died on the loth of See also: August 1908
.
In addition to his purely See also: political writings, Arthur See also: Ranc published political novels of the Second See also: Empire, Sous l'empire (1872) and Le See also: roman dune conspiration (1868)
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