Tony Révillon in Saint-Laurent-sur-Saône, Ain (01)

'TONY RÉVILLON

HOMME DE LETTRES

DÉPUTÉ DE PARIS

NÉ À

ST LAURENT-LÈS-MÂCON

1831–1898'

(In 1958 St Laurent-lès-Mâcon was renamed Saint-Laurent-sur-Saône to distinguish it from Mâcon.) Révillon began writing for the Gazette de Paris, and then in 1881 for Le Radical, a political and literary daily founded in the same year which continued circulation until 1931. Révillon is buried in the Cimetière du Montparnasse, a bust of him prominently marking his grave.

Pierre-Casimir Ordinaire in Saint-Laurent-sur-Saône, Ain (01)

'PLACE

Pierre-Casimir

ORDINAIRE

S^T Laurentin, rédacteur de la Mouche

de 1843 à 1848

Journal républicain sous la monarchie'

Unfortunately I can find very little information about Ordinaire, or even about the paper La Mouche: I suspect that this for was a common word in journalistic circles for a general source of irritation. Today of course far stronger expressions can be used.

A view of Saint-Laurent-sur-Saône from Mâcon, which is in Saône-et-Loire (71): the Pont Saint Laurent links the two départements across the Saône river.