Today in Labor History February 26, 1894: In France, Jean Grave was charged and sentenced to two years in prison for publishing the book “La société mourante et l'anarchie.” However, the trial only served to popularize the book, which was quickly translated into German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Yiddish. Voltairine De Cleyre produced an English translation in 1899. Novelist Octave Mirbeau (“Torture Garden” and “Diary of a Chambermaid”) wrote the preface. Grave was born on October 16, 1854 and died in 1939. He was active in the international anarchist communism movement and was editor Le Révolté and Les Temps Nouveaux, and a number of important anarchist books.

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OCTAVE MIRBEAU
par CATHERINE DELAUNAY
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/jean-jacques-birge/blog/080126/octave-mirbeau-par-catherine-delaunay

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Today in Labor History February 26, 1894: In France, Jean Grave was charged and sentenced to two years in prison for publishing the book “La société mourante et l'anarchie.” However, the trial only served to popularize the book, which was quickly translated into German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Yiddish. Voltairine De Cleyre produced an English translation in 1899. Novelist Octave Mirbeau (“Torture Garden” and “Diary of a Chambermaid”) wrote the preface. Grave was born on October 16, 1854 and died in 1939. He was active in the international anarchist communism movement and was editor Le Révolté, La Révolte and Les Temps Nouveaux, and a number of important anarchist books.

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Today in Labor History February 16, 1848: Octave Mirbeau, French novelist and playwright was born. Mirbeau wrote highly transgressive novels that dealt with violence, abuse and psychological detachment. He was also an anarchist and supporter of Alfred Dreyfuss, the Jewish French military officer wrongfully convicted of treason in an antisemitic show trial. He completed his novel, “The Torture Garden,” during the Dreyfess trial and dedicated it to "the priests, soldiers, judges, to those people who educate, instruct and govern men, I dedicate these pages of Murder and Blood."

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"Garden and Henhouse at Octave Mirbeau's, Les Damps," Camille Pissaro, 1892.

Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist was born on the island of St. Thomas, in the Virgin Islands, at the time a Danish possession. He was one of the absolute great artists of his time, developing from Impressionism to Post-Impressionism to Neo-Impressionism and heaven knows what else. Plus, his progeny includes a number of artists, including a grandchild currently living and still producing art.

Octave Mirbeau (1848-1917) was a prominent French journalist and art critic who was a friend and champion of Pissaro and others like Renoir, Bonnard, Van Gogh, Rodin, Monet, Cezanne, Gauguin...so many recognizable names. He was also a playwright and novelist, of works that were fairly scandalous in their day (and still have a punch today). I've read his "Diary of a Chambermaid" and it's quite an experience. He was a major figure in the Decadent and avant-garde movements.

But dang, he had a nice house.

From the Museum Barberini, Potsdam.

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Today in Labor History February 26, 1894: In France, Jean Grave was charged and sentenced to two years in prison for publishing the book “La société mourante et l'anarchie.” However, the trial only served to popularize the book, which was quickly translated into German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Yiddish. Voltairine De Cleyre produced an English translation in 1899. Novelist Octave Mirbeau (“Torture Garden” and “Diary of a Chambermaid”) wrote the preface. Grave was born on October 16, 1854 and died in 1939. He was active in the international anarchist communism movement and was editor Le Révolté, La Révolte and Les Temps Nouveaux, and a number of important anarchist books.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #censorship #freespeech #prison #OctaveMirbeau #JeanGrave #novel #books #author #writer @bookstadon

Today in Labor History February 16, 1848: Octave Mirbeau, French novelist and playwright was born. Mirbeau wrote highly transgressive novels that dealt with violence, abuse and psychological detachment. He was also an anarchist and supporter of Alfred Dreyfuss, the Jewish French military officer wrongfully convicted of treason in an antisemitic show trial. He completed his novel, “The Torture Garden,” during the Dreyfess trial and dedicated it to "the priests, soldiers, judges, to those people who educate, instruct and govern men, I dedicate these pages of Murder and Blood."

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #fiction #literary #novel #OctaveMirbeau #satire #AlfredDreyfess #author #writer #antisemitism #playwright #anarchism #fiction #books @bookstadon

Today in Labor History February 26, 1894: In France, Jean Grave was charged and sentenced to two years in prison for publishing the book “La société mourante et l'anarchie.” However, the trial only served to popularize the book, which was quickly translated into German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Yiddish. Voltairine De Cleyre produced an English translation in 1899. Novelist Octave Mirbeau (“Torture Garden” and “Diary of a Chambermaid”) wrote the preface. Grave was born on October 16, 1854 and died in 1939. He was active in the international anarchist communism movement and was editor Le Révolté, La Révolte and Les Temps Nouveaux, and a number of important anarchist books.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #anarchism #censorship #prison #OctaveMirbeau #JeanGrave #novel #books @bookstadon

Today in Labor History February 16, 1848: Octave Mirbeau, French novelist and playwright was born. Mirbeau wrote highly transgressive novels that dealt with violence, abuse and psychological detachment. He was also an anarchist and supporter of Alfred Dreyfuss, the Jewish French military officer wrongfully convicted of treason in an antisemitic show trial. He completed his novel, “The Torture Garden,” during the Dreyfess trial and dedicated it to "the priests, soldiers, judges, to those people who educate, instruct and govern men, I dedicate these pages of Murder and Blood."

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #fiction #literary #novel #OctaveMirbeau #satire #AlfredDreyfess #antisemitism #playwright #anarchism @bookstadon