Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - Later Life

Later Life

Proudhon was arrested for insulting the president Louis Napoléon Bonaparte and was imprisoned from 1849 to 1852. After his release he remained in exile from 1858 to 1862 in Belgium. Upon the liberalization of the empire in 1863 he returned to France.

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