[70] Jourde occupied the position of financial Minister under the
Commune Government. He is well-educated, and is said to be one of the
most intellectually distinguished of the Federal functionaries. He is
a medical student, and said to be twenty-seven years of age. See
Appendix 8.
[71] A working cobbler, and member of the International Society, which
he represented at the Congress of Bâle. He occupied a post on the
_Marseillaise_ newspaper, became a Commissary of Police after the
fourth of September, and took part on the popular side in the outbreak
of the thirty-first of October. He was deprived of his office by
General Trochu’s government, and appointed one of the delegates for
justice, by the authorities of the Commune.