Marcel Voisin (1892–1981) was a French grocer and anarchist.
Life
Born in
Tours
Tours ( , ) is one of the largest cities in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Indre-et-Loire. The Communes of France, commune of Tours had 136,463 ...
on 26 September 1892 to a seamstress and shoemaker, Voisin left school to apprentice as a butcher, court clerk, a car painter, and an itinerant worker. After hearing
Sébastien Faure
Sébastien Faure (6 January 1858 – 14 July 1942) was a French anarchist, freethought and secularist activist and a principal proponent of synthesis anarchism.
Biography
Before becoming a free-thinker, Faure was a seminarist. He engaged ...
speak, he joined him in ''
La Ruche'', where he worked as a handyman between 1912 and 1915. He later kept the shop for Faure's periodical, ''Ce qu’il faut dire''. Voisin also supported
Louis Lecoin
Louis Lecoin (30 September 1888 – 23 June 1971) was a French anarcho-pacifist. He was at the center of the foundation of the .
Biography
Louis Lecoin was born into a very poor family in Saint-Amand-Montrond in the Cher département. His paren ...
.
In the
postwar period through 1971, he managed a general food store. He spent the rest of his life traveling, writing poems, and writing his memoirs, despite being nearly blind. He remained a pacifist and anarchist through the end of his life. He died in Paris on 31 January 1981.
References
Further reading
*
Thierry Maricourt, ''Histoire de la littérature libertaire en France'', Albin Michel, 1990, page 143.
* Alain Faure, Claire Lévy-Vroelant, ''Hôtels meublés et garnis de Paris. 1860-1990'', Éditions Créaphis, 2007, Sources et bibliographie, page 13.
* Renaud Violet, ''Régénération humaine et éducation libertaire. L’influence du néo-malthusianisme français sur les expériences pédagogiques libertaires avant 1914'',
Strasbourg II (M.A.), 2002.
1892 births
1981 deaths
French anarchists
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