A Jailhouse Fragment
Conciergerie, Cell 1, April 13, 1892
Individual interest, the source of all of men’s wrongs, must, if we wish to establish harmony in humanity, be replaced by the common interest.
Koningstein
Saint Ravachol
“Did Ravachol’s Head Utter a Word?” (August 17, 1892)
Did Ravachol’s Head Utter a Word? London Daily Telegraph Ever since the execution of Ravachol a lively controversy has been going on as to the real nature of the “last cry” which he uttered just […]
Saint Ravachol
“Ravachol is the hero of the day” (1892)
[one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] LA QUINZAINE. — Ravachol est le héros du jour. Triste héros, il est vrai, ce misérable anarchiste auquel Paris tout entier a dû quelques heures de terreur véritable. Ravachol, d’abord […]
Working Translations
Joannès Tobas, “Arrestation de Ravachol / Arrest of Ravachol”
There is a single, blurry image floating around the internet of a poster or broadside featuring a poetic complainte on the topic of the “Arrestation de Ravachol.” What I am presenting here is a rather less poetic reconstruction of the piece, featuring a different—significantly less blurry—portrait of Ravachol and a rather literal rendering of the account presented.