The Dynamite Club: How A Bombing In Fin-de-Siecle Paris Ignited The Age Of Modern Terror - Plot & Excerpts
His father, Sixte-Casse Henry (always called Fortuné), the son of a furrier, was born in Nîmes in 1821. When he was about nine, his teacher, a priest, accused him of stealing a loaf of bread, calling him a "little thief." The boy grabbed the loaf of bread back and smacked the priest in the face with it. At age sixteen, he left his family to seek adventure, which he found on the barricades in Paris during the Revolution of 1848, an uprising of republicans and some socialists that led to the Second French Republic (1848–51). That regime was swept away in a wave of reaction and repression orchestrated by Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, its first and only president. During the Second Empire, Fortuné was a republican and then a socialist. He joined the First International Workingmen's Association, a socialist organization founded by trade unionists and political militants in London in 1864. In 1857 Fortuné married Rose Caubet, who also came from the Midi, from French Catalonia, the Pyrénées-Orientales.
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