21 Facts About Edmond Lepelletier

Edmond Lepelletier was a French journalist, a prolific popular novelist and a politician.

Edmond Lepelletier is known for his lifelong friendship with Paul Verlaine.

Edmond Lepelletier was initially a radical, fought for the Paris Commune, and wrote for republican journals.

Edmond Lepelletier was born in the Monceau district of Batignolles.

Edmond Lepelletier received a classical education at the Lycee Bonaparte, then enrolled in the Faculty of Law, where he gained a Bachelor's degree.

Edmond Lepelletier never pleaded as a lawyer, and later became a publicist.

Edmond Lepelletier married, and was the father of the playwright Saint-Georges de Bouhelier and of the wife of Rene Viviani.

Edmond Lepelletier fought 17 duels, was wounded, and only retained his limbs thanks to the surgeon Jules-Emile Pean.

Edmond Lepelletier defended the surgeon obstinately when he was viciously attacked by the press.

Toward the end of the Second French Empire Lepelletier was condemned for attacks on Baron Haussmann, prefect of the Seine.

Edmond Lepelletier contributed to the Peuple souverain, Suffrage universel, Patriote francais, Rappel a l'homme libre, Droits de l'homme, Radical, Marseillaise, Mot d'ordre and finally to L'Echo de Paris.

Edmond Lepelletier was a delegate to the Council of State of the Paris Commune.

Edmond Lepelletier was a friend of Verlaine until his death, and wrote his biography.

Edmond Lepelletier recalled that Paul Verlaine was infatuated with Arthur Rimbaud, a very affected young man, and imposed him on all his friends.

Edmond Lepelletier wrote that he threw the boy back into his chair, saying that in the recent war he had not been afraid of Prussians, and now he was not going to be bothered by a little troublemaker like Rimbaud.

Edmond Lepelletier ran as Republican candidate for the Seine for the 2nd constituency of the 17th arrondissement of Paris but was defeated in the first round by the Blanquist Ernest Roche, who won 8,953 votes against 7,758 for Edmond Lepelletier.

Edmond Lepelletier was an anti-revoluationary candidate again in 1893 in the 2nd constituency of the 17th arrondissement of Paris.

Edmond Lepelletier was appointed a justice of the peace for the canton of Marly in 1889, but was dismissed in 1899.

In 1898 Edmond Lepelletier completely abandoned the Republican majority to join the Nationalists.

Edmond Lepelletier resigned from Freemasonry, left his political friends and ran successfully in the 1900 Paris municipal election for the Batignolles district as an antisemitic candidate.

Edmond Lepelletier was decisively defeated in the 1906 general elections, Edmond Lepelletier left office on 31 May 1906.