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July 11, 2025

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HomeSaint Ravachol

Saint Ravachol

Ravachol spent his life as a sort of criminal jack-of-all-trades—smuggler, counterfeiter, grave-robber, murderer, bomber—and then, at the end of that career, was made a secular saint, “the violent Christ of anarchy.” And he was hardly the only one of the illegalists and attentateurs who was subsequently mythologized. Indeed, in the long war between anarchists and the agents of capitalism and the state, mythology has been a tool used on both sides. The items collected here are drawn from that war and are part of a literature in which history and myth are often inextricable. The collection includes items previously contained in the archives Relics of Saint-Ravachol and A Beautiful Nihilist.

Saint Ravachol

“A Whisky Anarchist” (Cleveland, OH, 1887)

July 11, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur
A WHISKY ANARCHIST A Young Man Excites People by Calling for Nitro-Glycerine to Make Bombs With. George A. Schroeder, who keeps a drug store at No. 423 St. Clair Street, telephoned the central police station […]
Saint Ravachol

Max Nettlau on the Ravachol Meetings (July 20, 1892)

July 11, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 0px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 0px”] [MAX NETTLAU ON THE RAVACHOL MEETINGS] JULY 20, 1892 Comrade, Having been present at the two meetings held with the object to discuss Ravachol’s acts, I […]
Saint Ravachol

An Unexpected Interview (March 28, 1892)

July 11, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur
AN UNEXPECTED INTERVIEW Conversation with the untraceable anarchist A reporter who has long followed the socialist and anarchist meetings came last night to tell us that, in a café near one of our great stations, […]
Saint Ravachol

The Interview of the Two Brothers (April 18, 1892)

July 11, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur
THE RAVACHOL CASE Publication of the indictment. — Proceedings against “La Lanterne.” In our issue bearing the date of April 16, we published the indictment against Ravachol. For that, our manager today received a summons […]
Saint Ravachol

Octave Mirbeau, “Ravachol” (May 1, 1892)

July 10, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur
Ravachol by Octave Mirbeau Translated and introduced by Robert Helms Francois-Claudius Koeningstein (Oct. 14, 1859 — July 11, 1892), known to posterity as Ravachol, was born to Dutch and French parents at Saint-Chamond, near St. […]
Saint Ravachol

Errico Malatesta, “A Little Theory” (August 17, 1892)

July 10, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur
A LITTLE THEORY Revolt rumbles everywhere. Here it is the expression of an idea, and there the result of a need; most often it is the consequence of the intertwining of needs and ideas which […]
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P. R. Bennett, “The Anarchist” (1912)

July 10, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur
[From P. R. Bennett, Ducdame; a book of verses. 1912.] The Anarchist [A critic in the New Age suggests that modern thought can submit no longer to the tyranny of rhyme and metre.] Ravachol Needham […]
Saint Ravachol

Charles Malato, “Some Anarchist Portraits” (September 1, 1894)

July 10, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur
SOME ANARCHIST PORTRAITS. I AM an anarchist. I have known intimately most of those who have carried on the propaganda by word of mouth and by writing, and also by deed: and if I disallow […]
Saint Ravachol

Pierre Quillard, “Conversation on the Life and Death of Ravachol” (1892)

July 10, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] CONVERSATION ON THE LIFE AND DEATH OF RAVACHOL I see only condemnation to death which distinguishes a man, thought Mathilde: it is the only thing which […]
Saint Ravachol

Paul Adam, “Eulogy for Ravachol” (July 1892)

July 10, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] EULOGY FOR RAVACHOL Paul Adam In these times, miracles and saints seem set to disappear. We can easily believe that the souls of contemporaries lack […]

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