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Georgette Ryner, “If I returned to your country” (1924/1926)

August 5, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

Georgette Ryner was the daughter of Han Ryner, a teacher and a regular contributed to E. Armand’s paper l’en dehors. The prose poem translated here is presented in two slightly different versions. The first appeared in La pensée française in 1924 and the second is the form in which it was published in the collection Dans la ronde éternelle in 1926. Si je retournais dans votre pays (La pensée française) Si je retournais dans votre pays, comme il serait triste ce retour au pays autrefois aimé, au pays où vous n’êtes plus ! Dans l’escalier quand je le gravirais, je […]

Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism — No. 5

August 3, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

“Life as experience tears up programs, treads decorum under foot, breaks the windows, descends from the ivory tower. It abandons the City of Established Facts, out through the Gate of Settled Matters and roams, vagabond, in the open countryside of the Unforeseen.” Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism: Project page Related links: “The Gift Economy of Property“ “Occupancy-and-Use: Neo-Proudhonian Remarks“ “Property, Individuality and Collective Force“ “What could justify property?“ Pierre Leroux in “The Present” and “The Spirit of the Age” Posts: Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism No. 5. — Give and Take: The First Society I would, […]

E. Armand — 1901

July 30, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

Related links: E. Armand [main page] Bibliography and Chronology L’Ère nouvelle (1901-1911) [Fragments] [Presse Anarchiste] [Bianco] E. Armand, “La grève générale,” L’Ère nouvelle 1 no. 1 (Mai 1901): 1. E. Armand, “Avis importants: A nos abonnés,” L’Ère nouvelle 1 no. 1 (Mai 1901): 3. E. A., “Pages de l’évangile: La vie,” L’Ère nouvelle 1 no. 1 (Mai 1901): 3. E. A., “Au cours de la plume,” L’Ère nouvelle 1 no. 1 (Mai 1901): 4. E. A., “Une médiation par mois,” L’Ère nouvelle 1 no. 1 (Mai 1901): 4. E. A., “La scission de Lyon,” L’Ère nouvelle 1 no. 2 (Juin […]

E. Armand — Chronology and Bibliography

July 27, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

E. Armand — Chronology and Combined Bibliography This page will remain very much a work-in-progress, but the goal is to gradually incorporate all of the details gleaned from various more focused searches into the skeleton of a biography. My intent is to begin working chronologically through Armand’s career, filling in gaps let in earlier work. The fact is, however, that research seldom respects such tidy intentions, so all I can promise is that earlier sections will tend to be more complete than the later ones. An important part of the work here will be assembling an edition of E. Armand’s […]

E. Armand — Biographical Sources

July 27, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

Related links: Mauricius, “E. Armand as I Knew Him” (1964) Jean Maxe, “Les Anarchistes et la psychologie du défaitisme,” Les cahiers de l’anti-France, vol. 7 Mais nous parlerons d’ÉMILE ARMAND (E.-L. Juin) qui, né en 1872, fut d’abord un salutiste mili- tant, puis un tolstoïen tourné à l’anarchisme. En 1901, avec Marie Kugel, il fondait l’Ere nouvelle, organe d’entente libertaire, « revue d’émancipation intégrale, d’idéalisme pratique et de communisme appliqué » (1). Il fut le promoteur de colonies anarchistes : à Vaux, Aiglemont, etc. Très indépendant et ne se livrant pas, ne croyant qu’à l’insoumission individuelle (2) et aux réformes […]

E. Armand in “L’Universel” (1900-1901)

July 26, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

L’Universel (1900-1901) E. A., “La lutte suprème,” L’Universel 2 no. 2 (Juin 1900): 4. [verse] E. Armand, “L’homme de péché,” L’Universel 2 no. 5 (Septembre 1900): 2. E. Armand, “Affaires de Chine et de chez vous!,” L’Universel 2 no. 6 (Octobre 1900): 1. “Polyglottisme” L’Universel 2 no. 6 (Octobre 1900): 4. [Ad for Armand’s translations] E. Armand, “Une joie! Un regret! Un acte!,” L’Universel 2 no. 7 (Novembre 1900): 2. E. A., “Vive la paix,” L’Universel 2 no. 8 (Décembre 1900): 1. E. Armand, “Il vous est né,” L’Universel 2 no. 8 (Décembre 1900): 1. E. Armand, “L’Éternel est avec […]

E. Armand, “Ouragan / Hurricane” (1906)

July 24, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

Heaps of ruins. Pyres. Blood. Tears. Harrowing cries. Desparate appeals, interspersed with terrifying silences. Pitiful supplications, mad laughter.

Murmurs, quivering, hazy and indistinct. Raucous noises, like the waves when they crash into the rocks.

It is the wind of liberty that whispers.

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Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism — No. 4

July 21, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

“Life as experience tears up programs, treads decorum under foot, breaks the windows, descends from the ivory tower. It abandons the City of Established Facts, out through the Gate of Settled Matters and roams, vagabond, in the open countryside of the Unforeseen.” Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism: Project page Related links: “The Gift Economy of Property“ “Occupancy-and-Use: Neo-Proudhonian Remarks“ “A Tale of Three Provisos“ Posts: Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism No. 4. — Give and Take: The Last Polity Summer is finally upon us and the fields, which have been going through their slow, but steady […]

Junius, “The Indifferent” (E. Armand)

July 17, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

In some autobiographical reflections published in l’Unique, E. Armand noted that late in 1897, he wrote “under the signature Franck or Junius or the two together” some articles for Sébastien Faure’s anarchist newspaper Le Libertaire. When I went in search of the writings, I found nothing earlier than February 1898, but I did find three articles signed “Junius” and three poems signed with some variation of “Frank J.” I’ve transcribed all six and am comparing the poems to similar work signed by Armand. I’ll have more to say about all of this is a future installment of the “Rambles in […]

Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism — No. 3

July 14, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

“Life as experience tears up programs, treads decorum under foot, breaks the windows, descends from the ivory tower. It abandons the City of Established Facts, out through the Gate of Settled Matters and roams, vagabond, in the open countryside of the Unforeseen.” Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism: Project page Related links: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: Self-Government and the Citizen-State E. Armand, “Life as Experience” (1906) Renzo Novatore, “Intellectual Vagabonds” (1917) “Note on Mutualism and the Market-Form“ “A passage missing from The Theory of Property“ “Proudhon on the State in 1861“ “Authority, Liberty and the Federative Principle“ “Anarchy: Historical, Abstract and […]