Gaston Crémieux

Gaston Crémieux

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Gaston Crémieux, born Isaac Louis Gaston (22 June 1836 in Nîmes (France) – 30 November 1871 in Marseille), was a lawyer, a journalist and a French writer. He distinguished himself by defending poor people, supporting Gambetta and Garibaldi. He led the League of the South (France) with Esquiros and . He was friends with Adolphe Joseph Carcassonne. In 1871, he became head of the . This democratic uprising (in conjunction with the Paris Commune) repressed in the blood by , Gaston Cremieux was sentenced to death by a military court and died at thirty-five years, mercy having been refused by Thiers and the commission with which he was surrounded. He was celebrated by Victor Hugo, Louise Michel, and Jean Jaurès.

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• (in French) His posthumous works : Gaston Cremieux, Paris E. Dentu. 1879, p. 1 here
• (in English) Marseille's commune story on line at marxist.org, by Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray