Baudin, Alphonse |
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BORN 20 Apr 1811, Nantua, Ain - DIED 3 Dec 1851, Paris: Faubourg St. Antoine, 8e Ancien BIRTH NAME Baudin, Jean Baptiste Alphonse CAUSE OF DEATH shot to death GRAVE LOCATION Paris: Panthéon (Caveau XXIII) |
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Alphonse Baudin studied medicine in Lyon and in Paris. He worked as a military doctor in Algeria and there he met Eugène Cavaignac. In 1842 he became a Freemason. In 1849 he was elected deputy of the Ain department. During Louis Napoléon Bonaparte's coup d'état of 2 December 1851, he was a member of a republican resistance committee. On 3 December he joined a barricade by the workers of the rue Sainte-Marguerite. He was killed by a shot from the barricades. After a public subscription, a monument was erected for him behind the Place de la Bastille near the spot where he was killed on the avenue Ledru-Rollin. It was dismantled in 1942 under the Vichy government. In 1978 a street was named after him in the 11th arrondisement. He was buried at the Montmartre Cemetery where republicans met at his tomb that was created by Aimé Millet. On 4 August 1889, his remains were transferred to the Pantheon. |
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 Cave XXIII of the Panthéon, Paris. Picture by Androom (07 Nov 2016) |
 The former grave of Alphonse Baudin at the Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris. His remains were transferred to the Panthéon in Paris. Picture by Androom (07 Feb 2025) |
Sources • Jouffre, Valérie-Noëlle, The Pantheon, Éditions Ouest-France, Rennes, 1994 • Winkler Prins Encyclopedie (editie 1909), 1909 • Alphonse Baudin - Wikipédia (FR) |
