Arizona republican., 1900-09-03
GEN. G. P. CLUsERET IS DEAD.
He Crmanded the Forces of the Com
 mune fir a Time

Gen. Gustavus Paul Cluseret, whose death at Toulon from pneumonia is an- nounced, was the noted pamphleteer and adventurer who for a short time comand the forces of the Commune il Paris. He was born in 1923 and was ed ucated at the military school of St. Cyr from which he graduated just as the
 military revolution If 1S4S broke Cu-. He took part in the disturbances in Paris and received the Legion of Hon. or from the revolutionary government.
 At dhz coup d'etat he was dismissed Wi,h many ether officers and joined the chasseurs d' d'Afrique. fighting in Algeria
 and in the Crimea. He left the army
 under a cloud and came to the United
 States where he organized a company
 of volunteers and joined Garibaldi in
 his conquest of the two Sicilies.
 At the outbreak of the civil war he returned to the United States and serv-
 ed in the Union army. first under Ere mont and later under Mcclellan. and was brevetted brigadier-gen ral but his insubordination led 10 his with drawal from the service early in 1868. He started newspaper in New York. bitterly opposing the nomination of | President Lincoln. In 1867 h. was
 mixed up with the Fenian movement and was believed to have led the at tack gn Chester castle. He returned t1 France where his violent articl $ soon got him into trouble and into jail, but Minister Washburne, on the plea that he was an American citizen. succeeded in getting him ou, of the country.
 | After the fall of the empire. Sept f. 1870. h went back to Paris an1 wrote articles so violent that H mi Roche | fort, in whose newspaper they appeared 6isavowed and re,racted them. IT" then tried to make trouble against the | government of National Defense al Lv-
 ons and at Marseilles. but he found his chance in the outbreak of the commune | in Paris He was defeated at the p.lls. | both for the legislature and he muni- cipal as Sembly. but was appointed del | esate for war by the Commune govern ment. He was unable to agree with
 them or with their measures. and was accused of plotting 10 sell Paris to the 1 Versailles government for 5000 GOO ! francs He was imprisoned. and wa : i still in jail wh-n the Versailles troops took the city. He keT; in hiding for 1 i've llbllli4S. at last tStdDlilS lO 'oNll- 1 zerland. Tn his absence he was con- demned to death for his share in the
 commune. In Switzerland he was cor
 respondent for English and American i n -wspapers and became entangled in
 several libel suits. He was in Turkey
 Curing the war with the Russians and
 is said to have taken service with the Turks.
 When amnesty was proclaimed in France in 1880 he returned to Paris,
 which he was soon obliged to leave
 again on account of judgments against
 him for libel5us articles against the government and the army. In 1884 he sprang a surprise on the Parisians by opening a "Cluseret gallery" contain
 ing 12O paintings and drawings by him self. and later sent other pictures to
 th salon. He joined the Boulanger movement and in 1888 was elected to lhe Chamber of Deputies from Toulon. Q district which he continued to repre- | sent until his death. When the war with Spain broke out Gen. Cluserlt published an article praising the Amer
 ican soldiers highly but speaking with | contempt of American officers. and par ticularly of Gen. Grant. This was the last public utterance of his that at tracted attfntion.-N. Y. Sun.