Some of his work was burlesque, but much was serious commentary on the wretched conditions of the working people in the industrial regions of the Saint-Étienne basin and Lyon.
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The police archives record that he was hawking "subversive" literature in Valence and Grenoble in support of the striking miners in 1844,
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which would ruin the Givors canal from Rive-de-Fier to Givors on the Rhone on which his father worked as a porter.
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Jean Guillaume Roquille's birth in Rive-de-Gier, in the industrial Gier valley between Saint-Étienne and Lyon, was recorded on 26 October 1804.
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