Henri Rochefort, From Red to Brown

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He was elected three times a Member of Parliament for the Seine, but he was only sixteen months in all at the Palais-Bourbon. A talented polemist, a duelist, forced, deported, eluded from Nouméa, the elected member of the radical left will gradually slide towards the bakery and nationalist ranks, before losing himself in an anti-Semitism of the most abject at the time of the Dreyfus affair.