Ernest Lavigne
French radical, journalist, author, and teacher. Collaborated on the Marseillaise, a weekly newspaper. Communard; fled to St Petersburg, Russia. Wrote books on Russian nihilism and a translation of Lucretius (1870). Married Ernestine Clara Commetant, daughter of Oscar Comettant, 1876 or 1877, and planned to offer board and lodging to pupils at their home.
Sources
IBN
letter from Oscar Comettant, 1 July 1877
NUC
Paris, France & vicinity marriage banns, 1860–1902 (Ancestry.com, accessed 13 January 2016)
Bibliography
IBN: Index bio-bibliographicus notorum hominum. Pt C: Corpus alphabeticum sectio generalis. Edited by Jean-Pierre Lobies et al. 200 vols. to date (A–Perkins, Kenneth). Osnabrück, Germany: Biblio Verlag. 1974–.
NUC: The national union catalog. Pre-1956 imprints. 685 vols. and supplement (69 vols.). London and Chicago: Mansell. 1968–81.
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