Paul Louis Marie Brousse was a French socialist, leader of the possibilistes group.
10 Facts About Paul Brousse
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Paul Brousse was active in the Jura Federation, a section of the International Working Men's Association, from the northwestern part of Switzerland and the Alsace.
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Paul Brousse helped edit the Bulletin de la Federation Jurassienne, along with anarchist Peter Kropotkin.
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Paul Brousse was in contact with Gustave Brocher between 1877 and 1880, who became anarchist under Brousse's influence.
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Paul Brousse studied medicine and travelled to Barcelona in his youth.
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Paul Brousse then joined the IWMA and participated to the Geneva Congress in September 1873, seeing anarchism as the only possible social organization.
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Paul Brousse was condemned to one month of prison.
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Paul Brousse returned to France in 1880 and progressively became more reformist.
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Paul Brousse began to take part in the French Workers' Party and then, after a scission, to the Federation of the Socialist Workers of France, which became known as the "possibilists".
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Paul Brousse voted at the 1896 international congress in London along with Jules Guesde for the expulsion of the "anti-authoritarian socialists", as were known the anarchists.