Eugene pottier autograph turn

French socialist politician (–)

Eugène Édine Pottier (French pronunciation:[øʒɛnpɔtje]; 4 October – 6 November ) was a French revolutionary, poet, song-writer, and freemason. He is most known for writing the lyrics of "The Internationale", a left-winganthem.

Life and Work in Paris

Pottier grew up as the son of a packer but later trained as an industrial textile designer, a profession that he celebrated in a poem called The Exposition, about the Paris Exposition of Industrial Design in ^[1][2] He began writing songs already in his teens, inspired by the example of Pierre-Jean de Béranger, whose book he apparently discovered in an armoire.^[3] By the time of the French Revolution of and the brief Second Republic, he was writing and performing political songs in the company of other worker-songwriters or chansonniers as they were known in French.^[4][5] At a time when up to seventy percent of the