Ferdinand Flocon
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Portrait from the Histoire populaire contemporaine de la France (1865)
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1 November 1800 Paris, France |
| Died | 15 March 1866 (aged 65) Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Journalist and politician |
| Known for | Member of the French Provisional Government of 1848 |
Ferdinand Flocon (1 November 1800 – 15 March 1866) was a French journalist and politician who was one of the founding members of the Provisional Government at the start of the French Second Republic in 1848. He was Minister of Agriculture and Commerce for the Executive Commission of 1848. He opposed Louis Napoleon and was forced into exile in the Second French Empire (1852–1870).
Ferdinand Flocon was born in Paris on 1 November 1800. His father worked for the Chappe telegraph service. Flocon was committed to democracy and the republican movement in France. In the 1920s he was a member of the Carbonari. Under the July Monarchy (1830–1948) he belonged to republican secret societies. Flocon became a stenographer and parliamentary reporter for liberal newspapers. He was also a translator and novelist. He was an editor for le Courrier français. Flocon later worked for le Constitutionnel and then for La Tribune.
Flocon joined a group of republicans who prepared to overthrow the monarchy when the king died. La Réforme, founded in 1843, became the organ of this group. It promoted a more assertive line than the moderate republican Le National. The first chief editor was Éléonore-Louis Godefroi Cavaignac. Flocon took over when Cavaignac died in 1845. He published the main articles of the abolitionist Victor Schœlcher in 1846–47. He was not a socialist, but believed in organized labor and the right to work. While he was editor La Réforme published articles from Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Mikhail Bakunin, Constantin Pecqueur, Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx.
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