Charles Aristide Desplanques was a militant anarchist, syndicalist and anti-militarist who wrote regularly for numerous anarchist journals in France and Belgium.
10 Facts About Charles Desplanques
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Charles Aristide Desplanques was born on 6 February 1877 in Ivry-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris.
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Charles Desplanques was arrested in 1903 for a sortie against a placement office.
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Charles Desplanques became a member of the Confederation generale du travail and in 1908 became its Assistant Secretary.
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Charles Desplanques was one of the contributors to the Temps Nouveaux of Jean Grave, for which he reported on developments in revolutionary syndicalism.
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In 1906 Desplanques was imprisoned for a year for signing a poster of the Association internationale antimilitariste.
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Charles Desplanques was then, with Georges Yvetot, secretary of the Federation des Bourses de travail.
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Charles Desplanques moved away from unionism, but continued to contribute to the anarchist press, notably for the review Plus Loin of Dr Pierrot.
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Charles Desplanques was against the repas collectif where all employees took lunch at the same time, and in favor of each salon working out its own system of breaks.
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Charles Desplanques died on 17 July 1951 in Paris at the age of 74.