Ère des attentats
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The Ère des attentats, or the French anarchist campaign of attacks from 1892 to 1894, was a period in the history of France and the broader history of propaganda of the deed, marked by a significant w
Child French textile worker (13 years old) - France, 1911
Posthumous portrait of Maria Blondeau, detail from an illustration of the Fourmies shooting victims during the 1 May 1891 demonstration (L'Intransigeant Illustré)
Ravachol, in front of the guillotine, painted by Charles Maurin in 1893
Official portrait of Sadi Carnot (1887)
Ravachol
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François Claudius Ravachol, also known as the Christ of Anarchy, was a French illegalist anarchist mainly known for his terrorist activism, impact, the myths that developed around his figure, and his
Ère des attentats
…avenging this repression, targeting symbols of power, state institutions, and emblematic places of bourgeois life. During the first part of the period, Ravachol, Théodule Meunier, and other anarchist activists engaged in a series of bombings targeting those responsible for judicial persecution against…
Ravachol's mugshot taken by Alphonse Bertillon (Anthropometric File of Anarchists - 1892)
Artist's rendition of the arrest of Ravachol.
Front page of the third issue of El Eco de Ravachol, a Spanish-speaking Catalan anarchist newspaper (January 1893)