29 Facts About Ernest Roche

Ernest Jean Roche was a French engraver and socialist politician.

Ernest Roche was of working class origin, and became involved in trade union activity while young.

Ernest Roche was imprisoned for his role in a strike of coal miners in 1886.

Ernest Roche was elected to the national legislature in 1889, holding office until 1906, and was reelected from 1910 to 1914.

Ernest Roche always supported workers and people who were suppressed for their views or political activities.

Ernest Jean Roche was born on 19 October 1850 in Bordeaux.

Ernest Roche began work as an engraver in Bordeaux while very young, and soon became involved in trade union affairs.

Ernest Roche was a member of the Blanquist Revolutionary Socialist Committee of Bordeaux.

In 1879 Roche led this committee in the campaign for Blanqui to be elected to the Chamber of Deputies.

Ernest Roche was made secretary of the Chambre Syndicale des Mecaniciens.

Ernest Roche was a delegate of the workers' unions at the Third Socialist Workers' Congress in Marseilles in October 1879.

At this congress Ernest Roche was among the Collectivist orators who called for intellectual, economic and political war between the classes.

Ernest Roche began building a revolutionary party in Bordeaux after the Blanqui campaign, but before the job was done decided to move to Paris.

Ernest Roche was in charge of the workers' section of L'Intransigeant until 1906.

Ernest Roche went, as did the socialist politicians Zephyrin Camelinat, Clovis Hugues and Antide Boyer.

Ernest Roche was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment for participating in the organization of miner's strikes in Anzin, and particularly Decazeville.

Ernest Roche received over 100,000 votes, but Gaulier won the election.

Ernest Roche made several unsuccessful attempts in municipal and national elections before being chosen on 4 October 1889 as Deputy for the Seine for the 2nd constituency of the 17th arrondissement of Paris.

Ernest Roche won in the first round with 8,953 votes against 7,758 for the Republican candidate Edmond Lepelletier.

Ernest Roche was strongly opposed to the draft law restricting the freedom of the press.

Ernest Roche contributed articles to the left-wing journals Le ralliement of Lyon from 1890 and Le reveil du peuple of Paris from 1892 to 1894.

Ernest Roche was reelected on 20 August 1893 and 8 May 1898.

Many of the supporters of Ernest Granger followed him into national socialism and the Ligue des Patriotes, a movement that Rochefort supported.

Ernest Roche was the effective leader of this faction of the Blanquists.

Ernest Roche continued to call for worker's solidarity, but became increasingly nationalistic in his views.

Ernest Roche was again elected on 27 April 1902 on the Nationalist Republican platform, holding office until 31 May 1906.

Ernest Roche founded the first "soup kitchen", created in the 17th arrondissement and from then subsidized by the Paris municipal council.

Ernest Roche was elected Deputy for the Seine on 8 May 1910, holding office until 31 May 1914.

Ernest Roche is buried in Pere Lachaise Cemetery in the 85th division.