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Jacques Élisée Reclus (French:; 15 March 1830 – 4 July 1905) was a French geographer, writer and anarchist. He produced his 19-volume masterwork, La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et les hommes ("Universal Geography"), over a period of nearly 20 years (1875–1894).
Élisée Reclus was a French geographer and anarchist who was awarded the gold medal of the Paris Geographical Society in 1892 for La Nouvelle Géographie universelle. He was educated at the Protestant college of Montauban and studied geography under Carl Ritter in Berlin.
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Mar 3, 2009 · Preface to the First French Edition of The Conquest of Bread — Elisée Reclus Oct 22, 2022 7 pp.
Mar 18, 2021 · Élisée Reclus (1830-1905) is known as the foremost French geographer of his age and as a major figure in the world anarchist movement. However, particularly at this moment of commemoration, he also deserves recognition as a notable participant in the Paris Commune, and as one of the most important interpreters of that world-historical event.
Reclus finally expanded the discussion into a book entitled L’Evolution, la révolution et l’idéal anarchique (Paris: Stock, 1898; Montréal: Lux Editions, 2004), his only full-length work on anarchist politics.
Elisée Reclus An Anarchist on Anarchy 1884 Originally published in the Contemporary Review, and then reprinted as a pamphlet by Benjamin R. Tucker, 1884
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2: The Anarchist Geographer. Elisée Reclus was born on March 15, 1830, in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, a small town on the Dordogne River in southwestern France. His father, Jacques Reclus, was a minister in Sainte-Foy and a professor at the nearby Protestant college.
