[66] Memoir, see Appendix 6.
[67] Félix Pyat was born in 1810 at Vierzon. He came to Paris for the
purpose of studying law, but soon abandoned his intention for the more
genial profession of journalist. He contributed to the _Figaro_, the
_Charivari_, the _Revue de Paris_, and the _National_. In 1848 he was
named Commissary-General, and subsequently deputy of the department of
the Cher. Having signed Ledru-Rollin’s call to arms, he was obliged
after the events of June to take refuge in England. Profiting by the
amnesty of the fifteenth of August, 1869, he returned to France, but
made himself so obnoxious to the Government by his virulent abuse of
the Empire, that he was again expelled. The revolution of the fourth
of September allowed him to re-enter France. He commenced an immediate
and violent attack on the new government, which he continued until his
journal, _Le Combat_, was suppressed. Needless to say that he was one
of the chief actors in the insurrections of the thirty-first of
October and the twenty-second of January. He was elected deputy, but
soon resigned, for the purpose of connecting himself with the cause of
the Commune. He edited the _Vengeur_ and the _Commune_ newspapers, and
obtained a decree suppressing nearly all rival or antagonistic
publications. At the fall of the Commune he fled no one knows where.