Armand Lévy (activist)

Armand Lévy (12 March 1827 – 23 March 1891) was a French lawyer and journalist.

Lévy was an anti-clericalist, a freemason, a republican and a socialist who supported the 1848 Revolution and the Paris Commune. Born in a Roman Catholic family, but with a Jewish grand-father, he was passionate about the Jewish cause. He fought alongside his illustrious friends, such as Adam Mickiewicz, Ion Brătianu and Camillo Cavour, for the independence of Poland and Romania, and for the unification of Italy.

Further reading

• Borejsza, Jerzy Wojciech (1969). Sekretárz Adama Mickiewicza: Armand Lévy i jego czasy, 1827-1891 (in Polish). Warsaw. 
  (this book was reissued in 2006 with ISBN 83-7453-637-3)
• Scheps, Samuel (1977). Armand Lévy: compagnon de Mickiewich, révolutionaire romantique (in French). 

Sources

• Armand Lévy's entry on the BnF website.
• "Un livre sur le rayonnement français en Europe au XIXe siècle". Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations (in French). 3: 779–783. 1972. .