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VICTOR HENRI, a Jan. 30, Jan. 30, 1830. He was removed from "Figaro" because of his satires on the imperial government; and the papers which he himself founded - "The Lanterne," " The Marseillaise," "The Password" - were filled with the same violent attacks. Condemned to exile in New Caledonia for his share in the Paris Commune, he escaped and afterward resided in England until amnestied. In England and later in Paris he edited a daily paper, "The Irreconcilable," noted for his vitriolic articles against the French Government. He wrote farces, vaudeville, comic romances, and political F-Cyc Vol 8 ROCHEFORT-SUR-MER ROCHESTER works. Among them: "The Depraved to surrender by famine after a year's siege Ones" (1882); "Return from Nova Sco- in 1628. Pop. about 36,000. tia" (1877); "Mlle. Bismarck" (1880); "Bitter Farces" (1886); "The [political] Lanterns of the Empire" (1884); "Fantasia" (1888); "Adventures of My Life" (1896). He died July 1, 1913.

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