Emmanuel Barthélemy

Biography:

Emmanuel Barthélemy was a French worker and a member of secret Blanquist societies during the reign of Louis-Phillipe the citizen king of France in the July monarchy from 1830 until 1848. Barthélemy participated in the June 1848 uprising in Paris. Following the suppression of the revolution he became a leader of the French society of Blanquist emigrants in London. He was convicted of the murder of Charles Collard and publicly hanged at Newgate on Monday 22 January 1855.