Paul Reclus (anarchist)
Paul Reclus (May 25, 1858 –January 19, 1941) was a French anarchist. Early life Paul Reclus was born on May 25, 1858, in Neuilly-sur-Seine to Élie Reclus. Following the Paris Commune, as a young teenager, he and his parents moved to Zurich, where he remained for six years. Reclus attended École Centrale Paris between 1878 and 1881, and worked as an engineer for the next 13 years. His 1885 marriage bore four children, among whom would be the anarchist Jacques Reclus (anarchist), Jacques Reclus. Career Reclus wrote syndicalist propaganda while an engineer at the Gare de Bessèges, from which he was fired in 1886. He formed an anarchist group and about 30 people in the Alès area (southern France) participated. Reclus attended the 1889 International Anarchist Congress in Paris, where advocated for individual reclamation as an expression of propaganda by deed. He later wrote that theft and work greatly overlapped, that presently, work was not honest and theft was not dis ...
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