Henri-François-Alphonse Esquiros

After some minor publications he produced L'évangile du peuple (1840), an exposition on the life and character of Jesus as a social reformer.

This work was considered an offense against religion and decency, and Esquiros was fined and imprisoned.

He was elected in 1850 as a socialist to the Legislative Assembly, but was exiled in 1851 for his opposition to the Second French Empire.

[1] Returning to France in 1869 he was again a member of the Legislative Assembly, and in 1876 was elected to the senate.

He turned to account his residence in England in L'Angleterre et la vie anglaise (5 vols., 1859-1869), portions of which were also published in English, e.g. Cornwall and its Coasts (1865).