Ludovic Frobert

‘My Soul of Combined Saltpeter’. The Penal Colony Journal of Jean Claude Romand

Having fought in the Lyon uprising of November 1831, tailor and republican activist Jean Claude Romand (1798–1874) was sentenced to the Toulon penal colony from 1833 to 1838. There, the man who would later claim credit for coining the Canut motto – ‘Live working or die fighting’...