René Saulière Papers

Period 1929, 1939-1998
Total size   0.6 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Born in Bordeaux 1911, died 1999; french anarchist and militant pacifist; refused military service at the beginning of the Second World War and took the pseudonym André Arru; worked together with Voline (Vsevolod Mikhailovitch Eichenbaum) in a resistance group; from 1946 active in the Fédération Anarchiste and the Union des Pacifistes de Provence (UPP); contributed to the freethinkers group Libre Pensée and its publications; since 1983 member the Association pour le droit de mourir dans la dignité; chose 1999 himself the time for his death.

Content

Correspondence with among others Jeanne Humbert 1959, 1979-1984, Aristide Lapeyre 1953-1973, Paul Lapeyre 1949-1990 and Voline 1944-1945; documents concerning the life of Voline 1939-1973, the resistance 1941-1984, the Fédération Anarchiste 1944-1991, the Union des Pacifistes de Provence 1952-1960 and the Centre International des Recherches sur l'Anarchisme 1959-1998.

Processing information

Inventory made by Bernard Mantel in 2002