FOOTNOTES:

[1] Reclus’ anarchist brochure A mon Ami le Paysan is a veritable literary gem.

[2] When they do not render it unproductive by transforming it into hunting grounds or pleasure parks or leave it sterile, either through want of sufficient capital to ameliorate it or simply from indifference and neglect.—Jean Grave.

[3] In France. The usage is somewhat different in certain other countries.

[4] Normally, all posters must carry revenue stamps.

[5] The officers of an assembly are so called in France.

[6] Charenton is the Paris insane hospital.

[7] The word trimardeur is derived from the dialect word trimard, which means grande route (the great road).

[8] Strictly, at 2 sous a four-page folder, each folder containing the words and music of one song and the words of two or three others.

[9] Ravachol was convicted of several overt acts, among them the dynamiting of the house of the judges Benoit and Bulot.