Jean baptiste clement biography
Jean-Baptiste Clément
French chansonnier, poet and communard
Jean-Baptiste Clément (31 May, , Seine – 23 February, , Paris) was a French chansonnier, news writer, socialist activist and communard.
Jean-Baptiste Clément - Biographie, ouvres de Jean-Baptiste ...: Jean-Baptiste Clément (31 May, , Seine – 23 February, , 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.He is mostly recognizable for his work Le Temps des cerises, which is strongly associated with the Paris Commune.
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 reporter and became associated with prominent activists such as Jules Vallès. In 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 Guard and participated in protests against the Government of National Defence.[4]
After the proclamation of the Paris Commune he was elected to the Commune Council and fought in the defense barricades during the semaine sanglante.
He is mostly known for his work Le Temps des ceriseswhich is strongly associated with the Paris Commune. In he had to flee to Belgiumwhere he published Le Temps des cerises later on. He became a member of the National Guard and participated in protests against the Government of National Defence. After the proclamation of the Paris Commune he was elected to the Commune Council and fought in the defense barricades during the semaine sanglante.After the descend of the Commune he managed to flee Paris and through Belgium he settled in Britain for a short time. He was sentenced to death in absentia and during this period lived clandestinely with his family in Montfermeil. He returned to Paris of the general amnesty of [5]
Clément participated in the founding of the Revolutionary Socialist Workers' Party of Jean Allemane.
He also a member of the Grand Orient de France.[4]
Jean-Baptiste Clément died on 23 February, in Paris aged [1]
Selected songs
- Au moulin de Bagnolet ()
- Le Moulin des larmes ()
- Le Temps des cerises ()
- La Semaine sanglante ()
- La Chanson du semeur ()
- Les Traîne-misère ()
- Aux loups ()
- La Grève ()
- En avant paysans&#;! ()
- Dansons la capucine (&#;?)
- Le Capitaine «&#;Au mur&#;»
- La Marjolaine
- Bonjour printemps
- Quatre-vingt-neuf
- L'Eau va toujours à la rivière
- Fournaise
- Ah le joli temps&#;!
- Le Chasse neige
- Le Bonheur des champs
- Le Couteau de Jeannette
- Fille des champs
- Le Barde Gaulois
- J'n'en ai pas le courage
- Le Chant du ruisseau
- Je vais chez la meunière