When Napoléon III seized power in 1851, many French went to exile in Jersey - Charles and his family, marked as being "from France" were recorded in the Jersey census in 1851, and still in 1861 and 1871 census.
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He was a friend and publishing collaborator in Brittany of the young Leconte de Lisle, two years his junior, and the humourist N. Mille in Brittany.
Bénézit was born on Jersey, where his father the musician Charles Bénézit, like Hugo, was exiled.
Emmanuel-Charles Bénézit (1887-Hyères, 1975) was a French painter and art curator.
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He was the son of Dr. Charles-Emmanuel Bénézit (1854-1920) the art gallery owner and founder of the Bénézit Dictionary.
Among his friends in those years was the musician Charles Bénézit.
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First published in the French language in three volumes between 1911 and 1923, the dictionary was put together by Emmanuel Bénézit (1854-1920) and a team of international specialists with assistance from his son the painter Emmanuel-Charles Bénézit (1887-1975), and daughter Marguerite Bénézit.