Pierre Joigneux in Beaune, Côte-d'Or (21)

Pierre Joigneaux (1815-92) was an extreme left-wing journalist born in Ruffey-lès-Beaune. He wrote for Le Journal du Peuple, Le Corsaire and Charivari, and was strongly opposed to Louis-Philippe I's government. In 1838 he received a four-year prison sentence for his writings in L'Homme libre, a republican paper published secretly. As a result of this experience, he published Les Prisons de Paris (1841). He was also a staunch believer in agronomy and was the founder of the 1872 law proposing an École nationale supérieure d'horticulture at Versailles.