Martin Nadaud (17 November 1815, Soubrebost, Creuse – 28 December 1898) rose from being a peasant boy to becoming a revolutionary and Member of Parliament. His first language was

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and he learned French while working in Paris as a

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from the age of 14. He avoided being drafted into the army for seven years service due to injuries from a fall on a Paris building site and local connections with a sympathetic doctor.He escaped to England after the

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and lived there for eighteen years, becoming a schoolmaster in

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under the assumed name of Henri Geo. Martin. He also was initiated as a

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in that time. As a member of the

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, he advocated better public transport and public services. A station of the

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was named after him (

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) but was absorbed by a renovated Gambetta station in 1969.

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