Peter Carey’s 2009 novel ‘Parrot and Olivier in America’ is inspired by his life
He suffered from frequent bouts of tuberculosis and finally succumbed to the disease in 1859, aged 53
With his political career behind him, he began focusing all his energy on writing ‘The Old Regime and the Revolution’ which was published in 1856
Louis Napoleon seized the control of the government in a coup in 1851
He was reelected the president of the departmental council of la Manche in 1850
He was elected to the new legislative Assembly in 1849 and was made minister of foreign affairs
He was elected to the Constituent Assembly of 1848 and made a member of the committee charged with drafting the new constitution
He was elected the general counsellor of the Manche in 1842, and served as the president of the department’s conseil general from 1849 till 1851
He visited Algeria in 1841 with his brother and friend Beaumont
The second volume of the highly acclaimed ‘Democracy in America’ was published in 1840
He met Henry Reeve in 1835 who would later become the translator of his works
On returning to France in 1832, they began working on their first book together, ‘On the Penitentiary System in the United States and its Application in France’
They obtained permission from the monarchy to study the penal system in America, and began their travel in 1831
The July Monarchy under Louis Philippe I began in 1830
In 1828, he met Gustave de Beaumont who was the deputy public prosecutor at the court of Versailles
He acquired an unpaid apprenticeship in 1827 at the court of law in Versailles
He was shattered by the death of his wife on December 2, 1881 and the death of his eldest daughter on January 11, 1883
The first of Karl Marx’s important works was ‘The Communist Manifesto’, published in 1848 which is recognized as one of the ‘world’s most influential political manuscripts’
Karl Marx married Jenny in a Protestant church in Kreuznach on June 19, 1843
