Victor Schloecher
The name Victor Schloecher is the first name on the monument.
The monument is in Pere Lachaise (Pt3) cemetery, Paris, Paris, France.
There are 71 other graves within this cemetery that are listed within the GPR database.
Victor Schloecher was buried in 1893. The actual date of death is not currently recorded on the GPR database but it may be on the grave monument photograph.
Victor Schloecher age is given as 89.
Victor Schloecher calculated year of birth is 1804.
Victor Schloecher is listed on the GPR grave numbered 329629.
Victor Schloecher is listed as the first name on monument on the grave monument.
Victor Schloecher has the record number 702407 within the GPR person name database table.
The record was added to the GPR on 18 August 2013
There are images available for the monument listing Victor Schloecher (see grave detail page).
The follow note is stored against Victor Schloecher record:
A Radical politician who in his youth knew Berlioz; Georges Sand and Liszt; Schloecher was sent by his father to Mexico; the USA and Cuba; where he developed his hatred of slavery. In France he became a journalist and campaigned for the abolition of slavery; which he achieved in France and the French empire in 1848. He became a Radical politician; and resisted the rise of the future Napoléon III; and he was on the same barricade as Alphonse Baudin when the latter was killed. Exiled in the UK under Napoléon III; he frequently saw his friend Victor Hugo. After the fall of Napoléon III; he returned to France and re-entered the French Parliament. In 1949; his remains were transferred to the Panthéon (the ultimate accolade in France) along with those of the first black person to receive the same honour; Félix Eboué.