[2] Within twelve years of the fall of the commune in 1871, Constant Marie's songs had become very popular in some circles.

He spent several weeks in the Mazas Prison before his conditional release, and remained under police surveillance until 1905.

[2] As a young man the anarchist, journalist and then Communist activist Fernand Desprès (1879–1949) worked as a shoemaker with Constant Marie.

[1] Le Père Lapurge ("Father Purge") was published in 1886 in the Calais anarchist newspaper La Révolte des Affamés.

Constant Marie's other well-known songs included Dame dynamite and La Muse rouge.