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Jean-Baptiste Clément
French chansonnier, poet and communard
Jean-Baptiste Clément (31 May, 1836, Seine – 23 February, 1903, Paris) was a French chansonnier, journalist, socialist activist and communard.
He is mostly known for his work Le Temps des cerises, which is strongly associated with the Paris Commune.
Jean baptiste clement biography of williams
Biography
Clément was born in to the family of a wealthy miller.[1] He left his family as a teenager and became a metal worker. He soon began to become active in socialist circles as a journalist and became associated with prominent activists such as Jules Vallès.
In 1867 he had to flee to Belgium, where he published Le Temps des cerises later on.[2][3]
He returned to Paris and continued his activism against the Second French Empire which eventually got him arrested and imprisoned in the Sainte-Pélagie Prison.
Clément was released after the Republican protests and abdication of Napoleon III. He became a member of the National Gu