“I beg you, do not tell anyone that I write to you, to anyone, so that nothing is known of me. Tear up my letter.”

Original: Je t’en supplie, ne dis à personne que je t’écris, à personne! de façon à ce qu’on ne sache rien de moi. Déchire ma lettre. — Shows his desire for erasure and secrecy during imprisonment. · Letter from Mons prison to Edmond Lepelletier, 1873 (French)

• Exile
• Isolation
• Secrecy