OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1792, 3 July 1913, Page 7

OBITUARY.

M. HENEI EOCHBFOET, By Telegraph—Pr«Ea .Association— Copyright ' London, July 1. M. Henri Rochefort, the well-knowi Frcnch journalist and politician, died a( Aix-les-Bains, the noted hot springs resort. . Henri Rochefort, Marquis de Eocliefort Lucay, was bom in Bans on January 30, 1830. Henri liochefort joined the 6tafl of the "Figaro" in 1863, but a series oi bis articles, afterwards published as "Les Francais do la Decadence," brought the paper into collision with, tho authorities, and 1 caused the termination of his engagement., Qu leaving the "Figaro," Rochefort started a paper of his own, "La Lanberae." It was spized on its olevonth appearance, and in' August, 1868, Rochofort was fined 10,000 francs, with a year's imprisonment. He then published nis paper in Brussels, whence it was smuggled into France. Printed in English, French, Spanish, Italian, and German, it went the round of Europe. After, a second proseoution he fled to Belgium. After an interval of years, spent in frequent conflicts with authority and flights from his country, the general amnesty of 1880 permitted his return to Paris, where he Founded "L'lntransigeant," in the Radical arid Social interest. For a short timo in 1885-86 he sat in the Chamber of Deputies, but found a great opportunity next year for his talent for inflaming pubUc opinion in the Boulangist agitation. He was condemned to detention - m the fortress in August, 1889, at tho. same time as General Boulanger, whom he had followed into exile. He continued lus .polemic from London, and, after the suicide oi General Boulanger, he attacked M. Constant Minister for the Interior in the Freiycmet Cabinet, with the utmost violence, in a series of articles which led tc an interpellation in the Chamber m circumstances of wild excitement and disorder. The Panama scandals furnished him withi another occasion, and ht oreated : something of a sensation by a statement m the Figaro that lio 1M met M. Clemenceau at the table of the financier Cornelius Hertz./ In 1895 he re tunied to Paris, two years before the Dreyfus affair supplied him with anothei point dfappui. Ho became a loader o the anti-Dreyfusards, and had a practical share in the * organisation of the pres. campaign. Subsequently he was cditoi of ("La'Patrio."