''Le Révolté'' was an anarcho-communist journal started by

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, along with François Dumartheray and Georg Herzig, in February 1879. The journal was partially funded by Elisée Reclus, Kropotkin's mentor. At the time of the journal's founding, Reclus and Kropotkin were living in the village of Clarens on

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. The journal itself was published in

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. After Kropotkin was expelled from

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and convicted in the Lyon trial of 1883 (for belonging to a defunct organization, i.e., The International), ''Le Révolté'' needed a new editor. Elisée Reclus, who had become quite friendly with Jean Grave, recommended Grave for the editorship and, after some hesitation, Grave accepted and moved to Geneva in 1883. Due to difficulties in getting the journal into

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as well as Swiss police harassment, in 1885 Grave moved back to France with the journal. The last issue of ''Le Révolté'' was 14 March 1885. In 1887 the journal became ''La Révolte''. The switch to ''La Révolte'' resulted from a desperate and ineffective effort to avoid legal responsibility for a fine assessed the journal for participating in an illegal

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in support of

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desertion. ''Le Révolté'' was issued semimonthly before May 1886 and afterwards was a four-page weekly. The journal's circulation in 1886 was about 4,000 and by 1889 had grown to 6,000. After 1895, the journal was named ''Les Temps Nouveaux;'' it ceased publication in 1914.

Notes

References

*Louis Patsouras (2003). ''The Anarchism of Jean Grave''.

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: Black Rose Books. *Martin A. Miller, (1976). '' Kropotkin''.

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. *Dana Ward (2010). ''"Alchemy in Clarens: Kropotkin and Reclus, 1877-1881."'' New Perspectives on Anarchism. eds., Nathan Jun, Sol Neely, and Shane Wahl, Lexington Press.

External links

25 November 1882 issue of ''Révolté'' can be found at Anarchy Archives.
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