Arthur Arnould (17 April 1833,

Dieuze Dieuze (; ) is a commune in the Moselle department, Grand Est region, France. Population People Dieuze was the birthplace of: *Charles Hermite, mathematician *Edmond François Valentin About, novelist, publicist and journalist * Émile Frian ...

- 26 November 1895) was a French writer, and journalist. He wrote under the pen name ''Arthur Matthey''. He was a member of the

Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor was an initiatic occult organization that first became public in late 1894, although according to an official document of the order it began its work in 1870. According to this document, authored by Peter Davids ...

and the

Theosophical Society The Theosophical Society is the organizational body of Theosophy, an esoteric new religious movement. It was founded in New York City, U.S.A. in 1875. Among its founders were Helena Blavatsky, a Russian mystic and the principal thinker of the ...

. He married the widowed painter Delphine de Cool in 1890. He is listed in the French dictionary of anarchists.

Biography

Arnould was born into a wealthy, intellectual family. His father, Edmond Arnould, was a professor at the

Collège de France The (), formerly known as the or as the ''Collège impérial'' founded in 1530 by François I, is a higher education and research establishment () in France. It is located in Paris near La Sorbonne. The has been considered to be France's most ...

. After a short administrative career at the Seine prefecture, Arthur Arnould became a journalist opposed to the

Second French Empire The Second French Empire, officially the French Empire, was the government of France from 1852 to 1870. It was established on 2 December 1852 by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, president of France under the French Second Republic, who proclaimed hi ...

. He was also a

Theosophy Theosophy is a religious movement established in the United States in the late 19th century. Founded primarily by the Russian Helena Blavatsky and based largely on her writings, it draws heavily from both older European philosophies such as Neop ...

and

Martinism Martinism is a form of Christian mysticism and esoteric Christianity concerned with the fall of the first man, his materialistic state of being, deprived of his own, divine source, and the process of his eventual (if not inevitable) return, call ...

. First editorial secretary at the Revue nationale, then editor at the Revue moderne, he published articles on various authors, notably

Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe (; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre. He is widely re ...

. He made his political debut in Opinion nationale and L'Époque, where he was condemned for an article, “La foire aux sottises”, in which he bluntly criticized Parisian town sergeants. He founded the Journal du peuple with Louis Noir and a number of other Marseillaise editors. He also wrote for the Avant-Garde. After the proclamation of the Republic on September 4, 1870, he was appointed deputy mayor of the IVth arrondissement. On March 26, 1871, he was elected to the Commune Council (Paris) by the IVth and VIIth arrondissements, with 8,608 votes. He was first a member of the Commission des Relations extérieures, then of the Commission du Travail et de l'Échange (April 6), then des Subsistances (April 21) and finally of the Commission de l'Enseignement (May 4). On May 1, he was put in charge of the Journal Officiel de la Commune. Of

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (, ; ; 1809 – 19 January 1865) was a French anarchist, socialist, philosopher, and economist who founded mutualist philosophy and is considered by many to be the "father of anarchism". He was the first person to ca ...

and anarchist leanings, he belonged to the Council minority and voted against the creation of the Comité de Salut Public. He called for council meetings to be as public as possible, for military reports to be posted and for secrecy to be abolished. According to Paul Delion (author of Members of the Commune and the Central Committee in 1871), Arthur Arnould was very isolated within the Council, being called both an aristocrat because of his neat appearance and a reactionary because of his protests. After the

Semaine sanglante The ''Semaine sanglante'' ("") was a weeklong battle in Paris from 21 to 28 May 1871, during which the French Army recaptured the city from the Paris Commune. This was the final battle of the Paris Commune. Following the Treaty of Frankfurt ...

, he fled to Switzerland, returning to France only after the amnesty of 1880. He wrote L'État et la Révolution (1877), a Histoire populaire et parlementaire de la Commune de Paris, published in 1878 in

Brussels metropolitan area The Brussels metropolitan area (; ) is the metropolitan area of Brussels. The metropolitan area covers three regions with an area of . The largest cities or towns within the metropolitan area are Brussels, Leuven and Vilvoorde. Economy In ...

Henry Kistemaeckers (publisher) Henry Kistemaeckers (c. 1851–1934) was a Belgian publisher and the father of the playwright Henry Kistemaeckers. References * * * Belgian publishers (people) 1850s births 1934 deaths {{Belgium-bio-stub ...

, and several novels under the pseudonym Arthur Matthey, Matthey named after his first wife. In 1890, he married the artist Delphine Arnould de Cool-Fortin. He died in 1895, aged 62, having spent several years retired in their villa in

Aulnay-sous-Bois Aulnay-sous-Bois () is a Communes of France, commune in the Seine-Saint-Denis department in the Île-de-France region in the north-eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the Kilometre zero of France. The commune has been awarded fo ...

, devoting himself to theosophy (president of the French branch of the Theosophical Society, he took over from

Helena Blavatsky Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (; – 8 May 1891), often known as Madame Blavatsky, was a Russian-born Mysticism, mystic and writer who emigrated to the United States where she co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875. She gained an internat ...

as editor of Le Lotus Bleu, and wrote several spiritualist works).''Le Grand Echo du Nord de la France'' du 27 novembre 1895 su
Gallica

References

External links

* * :s:fr:Auteur:Arthur Arnould - on French

Wikisource Wikisource is an online wiki-based digital library of free-content source text, textual sources operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikisource is the name of the project as a whole; it is also the name for each instance of that project, one f ...

1833 births 1895 deaths People from Dieuze French anarchists 19th-century French writers Writers from Grand Est French male writers 19th-century French male writers {{Anarchist-stub