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Gustave Flourens

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Born:
Aug. 4, 1838, Paris, France
Died:
April 3, 1871, Chatou (aged 32)

Gustave Flourens (born Aug. 4, 1838, Paris, France—died April 3, 1871, Chatou) was a French radical intellectual and a leader of the Paris Commune revolt of 1871. Flourens was the son of a famous physiologist, Marie-Jean-Pierre Flourens, and was a promising young scientist. As an academic he wrote such distinguished works as Histoire de l’homme (1863; “History of Man”), Ce qui est possible (1864; “What Is Possible”), and Science de l’homme (1865; “Science of Man”). In 1867 he was denied a professorship at the Collège de France because of his attachment to radical scientific and political doctrines. He had meanwhile ...(100 of 266 words)

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