Prisoners Sentenced to Life Imprisonment by France - Alfred Dreyfus, Klaus Barbie, Paul Touvier, Phan Boi Chau, Carlos the Jackal, Alfredo Astiz, Marie (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Alfred Dreyfus, Klaus Barbie, Paul Touvier, Phan Boi Chau, Carlos the Jackal, Alfredo Astiz, Marie Lafarge, Armand Pinsard, Henri Charriere, Michel Fourniret, Jacques Rabemananjara, Francis Heaulme, Jean-Claude Romand, Guy Georges, Theodule Meunier, Henry Coston, Antoni Berezowski, Antoine Francois Desrues. Excerpt: Phan B i Chau (Han t: December 26, 1867 - October 29, 1940) was a pioneer of Vietnamese 20th century nationalism. In 1903, he formed a revolutionary organization called the "Reformation Society" (Duy Tan h i). From 1905 to 1908, he lived in Japan where he wrote political tracts calling for the liberation of Vietnam from the French colonial regime. After being forced to leave Japan, he moved to China where he was influenced by Sun Yat-Sen. He formed a new group called the "Vietnamese Restoration League" (Vi t Nam Quang Ph c H i), modeled after Sun Yat-Sen's republican party. In 1925, French agents seized him in Shanghai. He was convicted of treason and spent the rest of his life under house arrest in Hu . During his career, he used several pen names, which included, among others, Sao Nam ( ), Th Han ( ), c Kinh T, Vi t i u, and Han Man T . Phan was born as Phan V n San ( ) in the village of Sa Nam, in Nam an District of the northern central province of Ngh An. His father, Phan V n Ph, descended from a poor family of scholars, who had always excelled academically. Phan spent his first three years in Sa Nam, the village of his mother, Nguy n Th Nhan, before the family moved to the home village of his father, Dan Nhiem, also in Nam an District. Until Phan was five, his father was typically away from home, teaching in other villages, so his mother raised him and taught him to recite passages from the...