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

pacifist Pacifism is the opposition to war or violence. The word ''pacifism'' was coined by the French peace campaigner Émile Arnaud and adopted by other peace activists at the tenth Universal Peace Congress in Glasgow in 1901. A related term is ''a ...

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anarchist Anarchism is a political philosophy and Political movement, movement that seeks to abolish all institutions that perpetuate authority, coercion, or Social hierarchy, hierarchy, primarily targeting the state (polity), state and capitalism. A ...

. Lacaze-Duthiers, an art critic for the Symbolist review journal '' La Plume'', was influenced by

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Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher. He began his career as a classical philologist, turning to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, aged 24, Nietzsche became the youngest pro ...

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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 oft ...

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

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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 others ...

''.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