Victor Méric
| Victor Méric | |
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Victor Méric c. 1908
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| Born |
10 May 1876 Marseille, France |
| Died | 10 October 1933 (aged 57) Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Other names | Henri Coudon |
| Occupation | Journalist, author |
Victor Méric is the pseudonym of Henri Coudon (10 May 1876 – 10 October 1933), a French journalist and libertarian author. He contributed to various anarchist journals before World War I (1914–18). Despite being a pacifist, he served in the army during the war. Afterwards he joined the French Communist Party, but was expelled in 1923 for his pacifist convictions. He wrote a number of books, both fiction and non-fiction, and founded the Ligue internationale des combattants de la paix (LICP: International League of Fighters for Peace).
Henri Coudon was born in Marseille on 10 May 1876. He moved to Paris, where he joined anarchist circles and took the pseudonym Victor Méric. He contributed to Le Libertaire, where he became a friend of Gaston Couté and Fernand Desprès. He was one of the founders of the Association internationale antimilitariste in 1904.
In 1906 Méric joined the revolutionary socialists and contributed to Gustave Hervé's journal La Guerre Sociale. In 1907 Méric and Henri Fabre created the periodical Les Hommes du jour, illustrated by Aristide Delannoy, which was a great success. They were convicted twice for "insulting the army" and spent one year in prison, where Delannoy died. From 4 June 1910 Méric published the periodical La Barricade. With the outbreak of World War I (1914–18), despite being pacifist he was mobilized and sent to the front line for four years.
Victor Méric was one of the contributors to La Voix des femmes, founded in 1917 by Louise Bodin and Colette Reynaud. Others included Séverine, Marthe Bigot, Hélène Brion, Madeleine Pelletier, Magdeleine Marx, Romain Rolland, Henri Barbusse, Léon Werth, Georges Pioch, Georges Yvetôt and Marianne Rauze. The journal covered a broad range of opinions, with a radical left-leaning outlook. It demanded full sexual equality and emancipation.
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