French Anarchists
Thinker Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, who grew up during the Restoration was the first self-described anarchist. French anarchists fought in the Spanish Civil War as volunteers in the International Brigades. French anarchism reached its height (as did the anarchist movement in general) in the late 19th century. According to journalist Brian Doherty, "The number of people who subscribed to the anarchist movement's many publications was in the tens of thousands in France alone."
Read more about French Anarchists: From The Second Republic To The Jura Federation, Anarchist Participation in The Paris Commune, The Propaganda of The Deed Period and Exile To Britain, 1895–1914, From World War I To World War II, Under Vichy, The Fourth Republic (1945–1958), The Fifth Republic (1958) and May 1968, Notable Individuals, List of French Libertarian Organisations
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“Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I for one do not agree.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?—Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)