Victor Noir was born Yvan Salmon at Attigny, Vosges. He lived as an ordinary man from 27th July 1848 until he met his death on 11th January 1870 in France as a journalist. He adopted the name ‘Vicor Noir’ as his pen
“Vienna was and remain for me the hardest though most thorough school of my life. In it I obtained the foundations of political view which never left me”