1. Georges Louis Francois Yvetot was a French typographer, anarcho-syndicalist and anti-militarist.
32 Facts About Georges Yvetot
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Georges Yvetot kept a low profile during the war, and in 1918 was dismissed from the CGT leadership.
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Georges Yvetot died in poverty during World War II.
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Georges Louis Francois Yvetot was born in Paris on 20 July 1868 to a father of Norman origin.
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Georges Yvetot was born in the Minimes barracks, where his father was a gendarme.
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Georges Yvetot's mother died, and then his father, while he was young.
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Georges Yvetot was raised by the Brothers of Christian Doctrine and the Auteuil center for orphan apprentices, where he trained as a typographer from 1880 to 1887.
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Georges Yvetot contracted pulmonary tuberculosis and was therefore not required to serve in the army.
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Georges Yvetot was working at the Petit Soir when Pelloutier died, and he succeeded him as secretary general of the Federation des Bourses on 22 May 1901.
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Georges Yvetot was appointed with the help of the socialists Jean Allemane and Paul Brousse.
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Georges Yvetot was a follower of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon as an anarchist, and continued to be so after becoming a syndicalist.
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Georges Yvetot was very reluctant about the Federation des Bourses merging with the CGT at the 9th congress in Nice in September 1901.
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Georges Yvetot presented the report on the Federation or Section of the Bourses at the CGT congresses in Nice, Algiers, Bourges and Amiens.
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Georges Yvetot did not attend the Marseille congress in October 1908 since he was imprisoned.
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Georges Yvetot attended the CGT congresses at Toulouse and Le Havre.
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Georges Yvetot represent French trade unionism at various international conferences in the inter-war years.
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In December 1902 Georges Yvetot was one of the founders of the Ligue antimilitariste, along with fellow anarchists Henri Beylie, Paraf-Javal, Albert Libertad and Emile Janvion.
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Georges Yvetot rejected this, stating baldly, "Workers can be patriotic if they have the temperament of dogs".
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At the 1906 Amiens congress of the CGT Georges Yvetot succeeded in passing a strongly unpatriotic motion, despite resistance from the leadership.
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Georges Yvetot opposed compulsory arbitration and demanded the freedom to strike.
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Georges Yvetot was often arrested and convicted for his propaganda, and spent several periods in prison.
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Georges Yvetot ran an organization called the Sou du Soldat which in theory helped young syndicalists by sending them small amounts of money when they were conscripted into the army.
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Georges Yvetot went to Montenegro and Serbia in 1915 to collect Yugoslav orphans when the Central Powers occupied that country.
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Georges Yvetot was dismissed from the leadership of the CGT in 1918.
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Georges Yvetot helped with many anarchist periodicals in France and Belgium.
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Georges Yvetot worked as a proofreader for Le Journal and l'Information.
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Georges Yvetot joined the proofreaders' union on 1 May 1918 and was on the union committee between 1920 and 1932.
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Georges Yvetot was general secretary of the union from 1921 to 1925.
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Georges Yvetot was no longer active in the CGT after the war started.
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Georges Yvetot was briefly president of the Comite ouvrier de secours immediat, created in March 1942, which helped working families affected by allied bombing.
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Georges Yvetot died suddenly on 11 May 1942 in Paris.
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Georges Yvetot was cremated on 15 May 1942 and his ashes were deposited in Pere Lachaise Cemetery in a ceremony attended by two hundred people.