Sébastien Faure
French Anarchist, Synthesist Anarchist, and Freethinker

(born 6 January 1858 in Saint-Étienne, Loire, France; died 14 July 1942 in Royan, Charente-Maritime, France)


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Sébastien Faure (born 6 January 1858 in Saint-Étienne, Loire, France; died 14 July 1942 in Royan, Charente-Maritime, France) was a French anarchist, freethought and secularist activist and a principal proponent of synthesis anarchism.

Before becoming a free-thinker, Faure was a seminarist. He engaged in politics as a socialist before turning to anarchism in 1888.

In 1894, he was prosecuted in "The Trial of the thirty" ("Procès des trente"), but was acquitted. In 1895, he cofounded "Le Libertaire" with Louise Michel, taking the name of the earlier journal by Joseph Déjacque. At the time of the Dreyfus affair, he was one of the leading supporters of Alfred Dreyfus. In 1904, he created a libertarian school called "La Ruche" (The Hive) close to Rambouillet. In 1916, he launched the periodical "Ce qu'il faut dire". Faure also co-founded (with Voline) the Synthesis, or also known as synthesis anarchism which was an influential form of conceiving anarchist federations.

Source: Wikipedia.org



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Articles

1891: The Anarchist Defense of Louis Léveillé : in “L’Anarchie en cour d’assises” by Sébastien Faure, 1891

1903: Libertarian Communism

1908: Does God Exist?: Twelve Proofs of the Inexistence of God

1921: Revolutionary Forces

1927: The Anarchist Synthesis

1934: Reformism

1934: Anarchist Encyclopedia Excerpts

Unknown: Violence

Unknown: Anarchy : From the Anarchist Encyclopedia, Vol. I.

Unknown: Deify

Unknown: Heresy

Unknown: Iconoclast

Unknown: Libertarian Education