Renée Lamberet (4 October 1901 – 12 March 1980) was 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 ...

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

Biography

Lamberet was born in Paris into a family of

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. As a young professor of

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and

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, she collaborated with the historian

Max Nettlau Max Heinrich Hermann Reinhardt Nettlau (; 1865–1944) was a German anarchist and historian. His extensive collection or archives was sold to the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam in 1935. He lived continuously in Amsterdam f ...

, notably producing the work '' La Première Internationale en Espagne (1868–1888)'' (The First International in Spain). Thanks to several visits to Catalonia with her sister, Madeleine Lamberet, she was familiar with the anarchist movement in Spain. Thanks to her role as a historian, in 1936 she was able to obtain access to documents related to the collectivisations that were in progress. It was in this context that she met Bernardo Pozo Riera, head of the Press and Propaganda Office of the Spanish

Confederación Nacional del Trabajo The (CNT; ) is a Spanish anarcho-syndicalist national trade union center, trade union confederation. Founded in 1910 in Barcelona from groups brought together by the trade union ''Solidaridad Obrera (historical union), Solidaridad Obrera'', ...

and the

Federación Anarquista Ibérica The Iberian Anarchist Federation (, FAI) is a Spanish anarchist organization. Due to its close relation with the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) anarcho-syndicalist union, it is often abbreviated as CNT-FAI. The FAI publishes the pe ...

. Their relationship went from professional to intimate until the latter's death in 1956. During the

Spanish Revolution of 1936 The Spanish Revolution was a social revolution that began at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, following the Spanish coup of July 1936, attempted coup to overthrow the Second Spanish Republic and arming of the worker movements an ...

, she fostered intense activity under the auspices of the

Solidaridad Internacional Antifascista Solidaridad Internacional Antifascista (), SIA, was a humanitarian organisation that existed in the Second Spanish Republic. It was politically aligned with the anarcho-syndicalist movement composed of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, CNT ...

(SIA), helping to develop the "Spartaco" children's colony to host refugee children from Basque Country,

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and the front in

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. During this period, she contributed to

Spain and the World ''Spain and the World'' is the name of an anarchist publication initiated in response to the Spanish Civil War and the struggles of the CNT-FAI carrying analysis of events as they unfolded. In Britain, the '' Freedom Paper'' had begun to peter-o ...

, published by London's

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Organiser of the Anarchist Federation

After the close of

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, she helped in re-establishing the Anarchist Federation in France, alongside Robert Joulin,

Henri Bouyé Henri is the French form of the masculine given name Henry, also in Estonian, Finnish, German and Luxembourgish. Bearers of the given name include: People French nobles * Henri I de Montmorency (1534–1614), Marshal and Constable of France * H ...

Maurice Joyeux Maurice Joyeux (29 January 1910 – 9 December 1991) was a French writer and anarchist. He first was a mechanic then a bookseller, he is a remarkable figure in the French Libertarianism Libertarianism (from ; or from ) is a political philosop ...

, Georges Fontenis, Suzy Chevet, Georges Vincey,

Aristide Jean-Bertrand Aristide (; born 15 July 1953) is a Haitian former Salesian priest and politician who became Haiti's first democratically elected president in 1991 before being deposed in a coup d'état. As a priest, he taught liberation theol ...

and Paul Lapeyre, Maurice Laisant, Giliane Berneri, Solange Dumont,

Roger Caron Roger "Mad Dog" Caron (April 12, 1938 – April 11, 2012) was a Canadian robber and the author of the influential prison memoir '' Go-Boy! Memories of a Life Behind Bars'' (1978). At the time of publishing, Caron was 39 years old and had spent ...

, Maurice Fayolle, Henri Oriol and Paul Chery.Cédric Guérin, ''Anarchisme français de 1950 à 1970'', Mémoire de Maitrise en Histoire contemporaine sous la direction de Mr Vandenbussche, Villeneuve d’Ascq, Université Lille III, 2000
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lamberet, Renee 1901 births 1980 deaths French anarchists Historians of anarchism 20th-century French historians Members of the French Anarchist Federation