CDV Francis Jourde

This is a Carte De Visite CDV albumen photo measuring 2.5x4 inches.

Francis Jourde was active during the Paris Commune, he was a delegate to the Central Committee of the National Guard ( 160th battalion ). During the elections of March 26, he was elected to the Council of the Commune for the 5th arrondissement. Appointed Delegate for Finance, his balance as a good manager and his scrupulous respect for the Bank of France earned him the resentment of many Communards, but he managed to pay the salaries of the National Guards, thus supporting nearly 500,000 Parisians. The Versailles courts showed him little gratitude for this, since he was arrested onMay 30, condemned, inSeptember 1871, to simple deportation to New Caledonia on the Isle of Pines. He was transported aboard the "Guerrière" which reached the Isle of Pines in November 1872.

His management skills were soon used in the colony, and he was allowed to go to Noumea in October 1873, where he found a job as an accountant. With Juliette Lopez (Doctor Rastoul 's partner ), he founded the Union, a mutual aid society providing assistance to deportees in need.

He escaped in March 1874 with Achille Ballière, Charles Bastien known as Granthille, Paschal Grousset, Olivier Pain and Henri Rochefort. Settled in England, he participated in a subscription intended for the victims of the Versailles repression. He settled in Strasbourg (then in Germany), then in Geneva, Brussels and London again. Returning to France after the amnesty of 1880, he was particularly active in solidarity with the amnestied Communards. - Wikipedia