16 March 2020

Jules Durand in Le Havre, Seine-Maritime (76)

A tribute to the anarchist and trade unionist docker Jules Druand (1880-1926), of the 'quai de charbon', who was unjustly accused of the death of a 'scab' and condemned to life imprisonment in 1910. A worldwide campaign demanded his release, and in 1918 he was found innocent. But already devastated by the injustice, Durand died in an asylum near Rouen in 1926.

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