Ernest Lavigne

French radical, journalist, author, and teacher. Collaborated on the Marseillaise, a weekly newspaper. Communard; fled to St Petersburg, Russia. Wrote books on Russian nihilism and a translation of Lucretius (1870). Married Ernestine Clara Commetant, daughter of Oscar Comettant, 1876 or 1877, and planned to offer board and lodging to pupils at their home.