However, the campaign contributed to obtaining a pardon for Blanqui and helped the Communards' amnesty proposal to pass in the Chamber of Deputies.

The violent demands at this congress led to an amnesty being granted to the socialist leaders who had been prescribed in 1871 after the fall of the Paris Commune.

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

[2] Roche was not able to find a job as an engraver in Paris, but Henri Rochefort gave him a position on his journal L'Intransigeant despite his apparent lack of qualifications.

Duc-Quercy went to Decazeville to support the strike and to draw national attention to the social issues in his Cri de peuple.

[7] The North American Review printed Henri Rochefort's account of the events, Irritated by the continuance of this strike, which was injuring their interests, certain influential financiers persuaded the Ministry that it would suffice to make the miners resume their work immediately if Roche and Quercy were removed.

Roche and Quercy, contrary to all law and all justice, to fifteen months imprisonment, under the pretext that they had made an attack upon liberty to labor.

[8] A different viewpoint was given in The Living Age, M. Roche and M. Duc Quercy were arrested on the charge of having wittingly disseminated false information for the purpose of stirring up the workmen.

Alter a scandalous trial, in the course of which M. Laguerre, a deputy, and the reporter of the Budget for Justice, insulted the procurator of the republic in open court, the accused were sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment.

The initial result of the sentence was to make M. Roche a candidate at the Parliamentary election of the 2nd of May; and the government was summoned to release him from prison in order that he might appear on the hustings.

ventured to present himself ; and the contest was limited to two journalists of the twelfth rank, and of almost equally extravagant opinions, M. Gaulier and M. Roche.

M. Gaulier was elected ...[9] Roche was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment for participating in the organization of miner's strikes in Anzin, and particularly Decazeville.

[2] Henri Rochefort resigned from his seat as a deputy, triggering a by-election in which the socialists combined to nominate Roche as their candidate.

[2] 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.

[2] In the chamber Roche supported the program of General Georges Ernest Boulanger and campaigned for revision of the constitution, abolition of the Senate, and the referendum.

[14] At the 1899 celebration of the anniversary of the Paris Commune, which Henri Rochefort and L'Intransigeant hosted, the speeches took an anti-Dreyfus theme in which Dreyfus was presented as a capitalist and a clerical.