HenriRochefort,asupporteroftheextremeleftundertheFrenchSecondEmpire,wasmanytimesarrestedandimprisoned.Once,hewasconfrontedbyhisinterrogatorwithevidenceofhislinkstointernationalrevolutionaries."Inoneofyourdrawers,"theinterrogatornoted,"werefoundtwophotographsofGiuseppeGaribaldiandGiuseppeMazziniwiththeirautographs."
"Thatistrue,"Rochefortreplied."Thetwopatriotssentmetheirphotos."
"Butthatisnotall.TherewerealsoseizedseveralpicturesofHenriRochefort."
"ButIamHenriRochefort!"
"Iamnotdenyingthat,"theinterrogatorreplied."Nonetheless,itissignificantthatyoushouldhavesomanyportraitsofthatnotorioussocialistinyourhouse."
亨利.羅什福爾是法蘭西第二帝國治下極左派人士,曾多次被捕及入獄。有一次,審問者向羅什福爾出示他和國際革命黨人聯繫的證據,說:「在你的抽屜裏,找到朱塞佩.加里波底和朱塞佩.馬志尼的兩張照片,照片上還有他們親筆簽名。」
羅什福爾回答:「不錯,這兩位愛國者把照片寄給我。」
「不但如此,我們還找到幾張亨利.羅什福爾的照片。」
「但我就是亨利.羅什福爾!」
審問者回答:「這一點我不否認。無論如何,這個社會主義者惡名昭彰,你家裏藏有那麼多他的照片,很不尋常。