Gérard de Lacaze-Duthiers (26 January 1876 – 3 May 1958) was a French writer, art critic,

pacifist Pacifism is the opposition or resistance to war, militarism (including conscription and mandatory military service) or violence. Pacifists generally reject theories of Just War. The word ''pacifism'' was coined by the French peace campaign ...

and

anarchist Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical of all justifications for authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including, though not neces ...

. Lacaze-Duthiers, an art critic for the Symbolist review journal ''

La Plume ''La Plume'' was a French bi-monthly literary and artistic review. The magazine was set up in 1889 by Léon Deschamps, who edited it for ten years and was succeeded as editor by Karl Boès from 1899 to 1914. Its offices were at number 31 rue Bo ...

'', was influenced by

Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is ...

Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (; or ; 15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, Prose poetry, prose poet, cultural critic, Philology, philologist, and composer whose work has exerted a profound influence on contemporary philo ...

and

Max Stirner Johann Kaspar Schmidt (25 October 1806 – 26 June 1856), known professionally as Max Stirner, was a German post-Hegelian philosopher, dealing mainly with the Hegelian notion of social alienation and self-consciousness. Stirner is often seen a ...

. His (1906) ''L'Ideal Humain de l'Art'' helped found the 'Artistocracy' movement - a movement advocating life in the service of art. His ideal was an anti-elitist aestheticism: "All men should be artists". Together with

André Colomer André Colomer (1886–1931) was a French poet, anarchist and later Communist activist. Works * ''Roland Malmos'' (novel) * ''Le Réfractaire'' (drama in three acts) * ''Bonimini contre le fascisme'' * ''Répression de l'anarchisme en Russie ...

and Manuel Devaldes, he founded ''L'Action d'Art'', an anarchist literary journal, in 1913. He was a contributor to the ''

Anarchist Encyclopedia The ''Anarchist Encyclopedia'' was an encyclopedia initiated by the French anarchist activist Sébastien Faure, between 1925 and 1934, published in four volumes. The original project was to be in five parts: #an anarchist dictionary #a history o ...

''. After

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

he contributed to the journal ''

L'Unique ''L'Unique'' was a French individualist anarchist publication edited by Émile Armand. It ran from 1945 to 1956 and reached 110 numbers. Other writers include Gérard de Lacaze-Duthiers, Manuel Devaldès, Lucy Sterne, Thérèse Gaucher and ot ...

''.L'Unique (1945-1956)
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Works

* ''L'Ideal Humain de l'Art'', 1905. * ''Le Découverte de la Vie'', 1906. * ''Guy de Maupassant: son œuvre: portrait et autographe: document pour l'histoire de la littérature française'', 1926. * ''Manuels et intellectuels'', 1932. * ''Visages de ce temps: visages de mensonge, visages de haine, visages de fous'', 1950. * ''C'était en 1900: souvenirs et impressions (1895-1905)'', 1957.

References

1876 births 1958 deaths Individualist anarchists French anarchists French art critics French male non-fiction writers French pacifists {{Anarchist-stub