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Paul Lafargue

1842 to 1911 3 documented presences 3 places

Quo Fuit places 3 dated presences for Paul Lafargue across 3 places, from 1842 to 1873. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Paul Lafargue (15 January 1842 – 25 November 1911) was a Cuban-born French political writer, economist, journalist, literary critic, and activist.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Paul Lafargue was documented, and when

1842year
Santiago de Cubaattested “Lafargue was born in 1842 in Santiago de Cuba.” source: Wikipedia: Paul Lafargue
1842year
Santiagoattested “Lafargue was born in 1842 in Santiago de Cuba.” source: Wikipedia: Paul Lafargue
1873 to 1882period
Londonattested “Between 1873 and 1882, Paul Lafargue lived in London, and avoided practising medicine as he had lost faith in it after the death in infancy of his and Laura's three children.” source: Wikipedia: Paul Lafargue

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Places Paul Lafargue is documented in

London1 presence · 1873Santiago1 presence · 1842
Santiago de Cuba1 presence · 1842

Other places tied to Paul Lafargue in the record

In each of these, a source puts Paul Lafargue and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Paul Lafargue was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.

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Liègementioned “In 1865, after participating in the International Students' Congress in Liège, Lafargue was banned from all French universities, and had to leave for London in order to start a career.” source: Wikipedia: Paul Lafargue
April 1868month
Metropolitan Borough of St Pancrasmentioned “It was there that he became a frequent visitor to Marx's house, meeting his second daughter Laura, whom he married at St Pancras registry office in April 1868.” source: Wikipedia: Paul Lafargue
1871year
Spainmentioned “After the revolutionary episode of the Paris Commune during 1871, political repression forced him to flee to Spain.” source: Wikipedia: Paul Lafargue
1882year
Parismentioned “In 1882, he started working in an insurance company, which allowed him to relocate back to Paris and become more involved with French socialist politics.” source: Wikipedia: Paul Lafargue
1908year
Toulousementioned “In 1908, after a Congress in Toulouse, the different socialist tendencies were unified in the form of a single party.” source: Wikipedia: Paul Lafargue

Documented at the same place, the same year

Bernardo O'HigginsSantiago · 1842Otto von BismarckEngland · 1873Eleanor MarxEngland · 1873

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