Voltaire In Exile: His Life And Works In France And Abroad With Unpublished Letters Of Voltaire And Mme. Du Chatelet

by Benjamin Gastineau, F. Vogeli (Translator), Edmond Dubourg (Translator)

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244 pages, Paperback

First published May 30, 2006

About the author

Benjamin Gastineau was a French journalist, writer and historian. A typographer, he acquired Proudhon's ideas and became a journalist for La Voix du Peuple, which earned him a sentence in 1848. As an opponent of the Bonapartist regime, he was expelled to Algeria in 1852. Returning to France, he became editor-in-chief of the Guetteur de Saint-Quentin and moved to the provinces. On February 24, 1858 , he was arrested again and transferred to Paris . His newspaper is banned because it "excites the working class against the established order," Gastineau is deported back to Algeria. Amnestied in 1859, he continued his activities as a journalist in the provinces.

At the fall of the Second Empire , he moved to Paris, where he joined the Commune and became involved in newspapers and revolutionary clubs. On May 3, 1871, he was appointed Inspector of Municipal Libraries and Director of the Mazarine Library . At the fall of the Commune, he escaped repression by fleeing to Belgium . He returned to France after the amnesty of 1880. He published a large number of novels of light literature and was a member of the Society of the men of letters.