Working Translations
“L’authentique embusqué / The Genuine Shirker” (1915)
This text, which was apparently separately published in mid-1915 and is preserved in the Paris Archives de la préfecture de police, is attributed to E. Armand in Les En-dehors: Anarchistes individualistes et illégalistes à la “Belle Époque.” It is noted as a response to an article in La Guerre sociale denouncing the embusqués (wartime shirkers), after that paper turned from antimilitarism to support for the Union Sacrée. This apparently incomplete (and perhaps not entirely reliable?) transcription has circulated online and in pamphlet form under Armand’s name. There is nothing about the prose that strikes me as particularly characteristic of Armand’s […]