Writer and politician. Tutau i Vergés formed part of Abdó Terrades’ government in Figueres in 1854 and went into exile between 1855 and 1858. He was part of Monturiol, Clavé and Sunyer i Capdevila’s democratic and republican federalist group. He held several political positions such as member of Figueres Parliament between 1871 and 1873, and Minister of Finance during the First Spanish Republic.
As an activist, he was Vice-President of the Junta Revolucionària de Barcelona in September 1868, and a promotor of cooperativism and unions. He was also part of the Ateneu Lliure de Catalunya and the Ateneu Barcelonès.
Tutau i Vergés was the printer of El Estado Catalán.