Duc Quercy
| Antoine-Joseph Duc | |
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| Born |
11 May 1856 Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France |
| Died | April 1934 Écouen, Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Other names | Duc-Quercy |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Antoine-Joseph Duc (11 May 1856 – April 1934), known as Duc-Quercy and sometimes called Albert Duc-Quercy, was a French journalist and militant socialist. He was involved in several strikes in the coal mining areas of Aveyron. He twice ran unsuccessfully for election to the legislature as socialist.
Antoine-Joseph Duc was born in 1856. He was a native of Arles, and as a young man was a Provençal poet. He taught French to his fellow-Provençal Batisto Bonnet, who said later Duc-Quercy "looked like a small black bull breathing fire from mouth and nostrils. In 1877 the Soucieta Felibrenco dé Paris was founded by Baptiste Bonnet, Jean Barnabé Amy, Joseph Banquier, Antoine Duc (Duc-Quercy), Maurice Faure, Louis Gleize and Pierre Grivolas. The society created the journal Lou Viro-Souléu.
Duc-Quercy became a journalist, a member of the French Workers' Party and the French Section of the Workers' International. He contributed to Paul Lafargue's La Socialiste, the organ of the Guesdist movement. In 1887 the paper was at risk of closing, and Duc-Quercy, Lafarge and Jules Guesde went to Marseille in an attempt to expand circulation. Gabriel Deville donated funds from an inheritance, which kept the paper alive until early February 1888, when it ceased publication until September 1890.
Duc-Quercy was the editor of the Cri du peuple. When interviewing Maurice Maeterlinck in 1891 he said he was opposed to literary writers who "voluntarily isolate themselves, on the pretext of pure art, from the ideas of their time". In Jean Béraud's painting La Madeleine chez le Pharisien (1891) each character is a member of the political or literary world. The face of Christ is that of Duc-Quercy and the face of Simon the Pharisee is that of the writer Ernest Renan. His wife, who wrote under the name "Angèle Duc-Quercy", was also a journalist. She was sentenced to two months in prison in 1891 for having arranged the escape of the Polish nihilist Stanislas Padlewski (1857–91). She contributed to La Revue des revues in 1899.
The first issue of the Marxist journal L'Ère Nouvelle ("The New Era") appeared on 1 July 1893, founded and edited by the Guesdist George Diamandy, with the declared purpose of infusing literature with a message of revolutionary socialism. Contributors included Georgi Plekhanov, Edward Aveling and Gabriel Deville. Georges Sorel joined the editorial staff. Other contributors were Abel Hovelacque, Jean Jaurès, Alexandre Millerand, Lafargue, Guesde and Duc-Quercy. The journal openly provoking the reading public to explore the work of Émile Zola, attacked the "reactionary" critics and also proudly called itself "eclectic".
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