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[Victor Henri Rochfort-Lucay, 1830-1913, head and shoulders, facing right] – Antique Wall Art

[Victor Henri Rochfort-Lucay, 1830-1913, head and shoulders, facing right] — historic photograph
[Victor Henri Rochfort-Lucay, 1830-1913, head and shoulders, facing right]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: [Victor Henri Rochfort-Lucay, 1830-1913, head and shoulders, facing right], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Victor Henri Rochfort-Lucay, 1830-1913, head and shoulders, facing right]

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This head-and-shoulders portrait shows Victor Henri Rochfort-Lucay, the French journalist and politician better known as Henri Rochefort, turned to the right in a formal pose. Rochefort made his name with *La Lanterne*, a sharply satirical paper that mocked the Second Empire and drew repeated censorship and imprisonment. The record dates the print to about 1871, a year of upheaval in Paris, when Rochefort was elected to the National Assembly and then became associated with the Paris Commune. His later deportation to New Caledonia and escape made him one of the period's most watched political figures, and the portrait captures the composed bearing of a man whose public life was anything but calm.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes1871?
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,182 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124216

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