1. Antoine-Joseph Duc, known as Duc-Quercy and sometimes called Albert Duc-Quercy, was a French journalist and militant socialist.
11 Facts About Duc-Quercy
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Duc-Quercy was involved in several strikes in the coal mining areas of Aveyron.
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Duc-Quercy twice ran unsuccessfully for election to the legislature as socialist.
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Duc-Quercy was a native of Arles, and as a young man was a Provencal poet.
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Duc-Quercy became a journalist, a member of the French Workers' Party and of the French Section of the Workers' International.
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Duc-Quercy contributed to Paul Lafargue's La Socialiste, the organ of the Guesdist movement.
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Duc-Quercy's wife, who wrote under the name "Angele Duc-Quercy", was a journalist.
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Duc-Quercy was sentenced to two months in prison in 1891 for having arranged the escape of the Polish nihilist Stanislas Padlewski.
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Duc-Quercy went to Decazeville to support the strike and to draw national attention to the social issues in his Cri de peuple.
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Jean Jaures, Duc-Quercy and Eugene Baudin said the strike was an attempt to guarantee the political liberties of Carmaux voters.
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When Duc-Quercy ran again as candidate for Decazeville in the elections of 1906 he only obtained 1,835 votes.