l’Ere nouvelle

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E. Armand, “Scènes de Noel / Christmas Scenes” (1901)

December 24, 2022 Shawn P. Wilbur
A church or a temple. Light, many lights. Candles that illuminate vast crucifixes, or a Christmas tree laden with toys, a fir tree whose evergreen branches evoke the image of eternity. Organs whose sonic flights seem an echo of celestial hymns. Carols that remind us of those with which our mothers rocked us to sleep… Handsome gentlemen in frock coats, tight at the waist, with eight shining gleams; polished, pomaded, combed, varnished, tied. Beautiful, elegant, fragrant ladies, studded with jewels, real or fake, whose slightly raised skirts reveal an expensively shod foot at the end of a finely arched ankle… Good, honest families in their Sunday best, made respectable, troops of children whose happy faces the symbolic tree illuminates… Ease, comfort, joy!… all that is good.

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L’Ère Nouvelle: misc. documents

October 31, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
l’Ère Nouvelle PARAIT AU MOINS UNE FOIS TOUS LES DEUX MOIS sur 48 pages au minimum LE N° 25 CENTIMES. ABONNEMENT 2 fr. PAR AN (2 fr. 50 U.P.U.) Rédaction et administration : 68, rue François-Miron, Paris 4 L’Ère Nouvelle publie des articles, études ou traductions de Ciro Alvi, E. Armand, H. Beylie, Ad. Blanc, Godfrey Blount, Marie Calisch, T. Combe, Ernest Crosby, Edw. Carpenter, W. Th. Brown, P. Birukoff, Voltairine de Cleyre, Clarence Darrow, Elisée Reclus, W. Hamburger, E. Hamburger-Cordès, Richard Heath, Ch. Hotz, Geo. D. Herron, Davidson Morrison, P. Kropotkine, Marie Kugel, Havelock Ellis, Félicie Numietzka, Félix Ortt, […]
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E. Armand, “L’abîme / The Abyss” (1910)

August 21, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
All the avant-garde sociétaires — social-democrats, revolutionaries of every shade, various communists — say that the individual is a “product of the environment.” It would be more precise to say that individuals are products of their environment. And to add that the individual is more specifically the outcome of an ancestral line whose origin goes back to the animal night. Taking into account that in certain individuals the characteristics of temperament and constitution of a particular ancestor essentially dominate.

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E. Armand, “Le choix / The Choice” (1906)

August 14, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
Le choix. Il faut choisir : laisser la route large à d’autres : Prendre un sentier perdu, mal ou peu fréquenté, Où l’on croise des fous, des pionniers, des apôtres ; Sombre tant que le cœur frémit, épouvanté ! Ah! ce n’est pas la voie qui mène vers la gloire ; Les efforts les plus purs demeurent incompris ; C’est la lutte sans trêve et jamais la victoire; On sème avec ardeur, on récolte mépris ! L’infâme trahison vous guette à chaque pas ; Vous pleurez, à vos pleurs l’écho répond : méfiance. Vous peinez, mais en vain : jamais […]
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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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bibliographies

E. Armand: Supplements and Broadsides

January 4, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
Related links: E. Armand [main page] There were a large number of supplements, broadsides and advertising materials produced in the course of E. Armand’s various periodical publishing ventures and the existing bibliographies, perhaps understandably, incomplete and sometimes confusing with regard to these items. The first group of documents listed here come from early in Armand’s career and relate to l’Ère Nouvelle. Most can be found in the digitized archives of the IISH. [Charles Hotz papers, folder 183] There are several more known supplements to l’Ère Nouvelle, which I will add as I can confirm their particulars. And then I can […]
anarchist synthesis

Entente Libertaire — Notes and texts

September 10, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
Related links: L’Ère nouvelle [Fragments] Bibiography: E. Armand, “La réalisation de l’idéal libertaire,” L’Ère nouvelle 3 no. 25 (27 Septembre 1903): 77-78. [front cover copy], L’Ère nouvelle 3 no. 26 (25 Novembre-1er Décembre 1903): 88. La Rédaction, “A nos camarades. A tous ceux qui s’intéressent à notre mouvement,” L’Ère nouvelle 3 no. 26 (25 Novembre-1er Décembre 1903): 89. “L’entente libertaire,” L’Ère nouvelle 3 no. 26 (25 Novembre-1er Décembre 1903): 90-91. [back cover copy], L’Ère nouvelle 3 no. 26 (25 Novembre-1er Décembre 1903): 125. [various authors], “À propos de l’entente libertaire,” L’Ère nouvelle 3 no. 28 (Mars-Avril 1904): 184-188. E. Armand, […]
anarchism without adjectives

Max Nettlau, “Observations d’actualité” (1910)

May 26, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
[The French essay “Observations d’actualité” was a translation and revision of “A General Survey” (Freedom 24 no. 249 (January, 1910): 5-7.) This new English translation is intended to show the refinement of Nettlau’s ideas.] [one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0″] Observations d’actualité Les organismes primitifs parlant grosso modo ressemblent l’un à l’autre ; un développement plus élevé produit la différenciation. La société primitive fut facilement asservie par us classe dominante rusée qui fit accepter à la masse de croyances et des coutumes uniformes. Nous sommes encore sous le charme et nous nous imaginons habituellement que la société tout entière acceptera par la […]