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Élisée Reclus
Jacques Élisée Reclus was a French geographer, writer, and anarchist. He produced his 19-volume masterwork, La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et les hommes , over a period of nearly 20 years (1875–1894). In 1892 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Paris Geographical Society for this work, despite having been banished from France because of his political activism.
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culture · French geographer, writer and anarchist · geographer · university teacher · communard · writer · anarchist · opinion journalist · also Élisée Reclus, Elisée Reclus, Jacques Elisée, Elisee Reclus, Jacques Elisee, Élysée Reclus
Born 15 March 1830 · Died 4 July 1905 · Q20951
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He knew how to die poor after having written wonderful books. And he knew how, having attained the high summits of fame, never to rule anybody and to remain the equal of his humblest collaborator and of every one he met with. He certainly was one of the finest specimens of civilized mankind, a man free in the purest sense of the word.
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Won Patron’s Medal (1894).
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2026· 2 entries
Fabula: Élisée Reclus, Du sentiment de la nature dans les sociétés modernes (préface d'Annie Le Brun)
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2025· 1 entry
Techno-Science.net: Elisée Reclus
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2024· 2 entries
Moviefone: Élisée Reclus, La Passion Du Monde
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Fabula: Benoît Bodlet, Les Histoires d'Élisée Reclus
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2022· 3 entries
Mediapart: L’acuité résolue d’Élisée Reclus
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insider.si.edu: Élisée Reclus, historian of nature / by Gary S. Dunbar
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Sud Ouest: Landes/édition : « Le Littoral aquitain » d’Élisée Reclus revisité par Jean-Jacques Taillentou
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2021· 2 entries
Radio France Internationale: Élisée Reclus ou l'écologie anarchiste
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Reclus, a tectonics database, was named for Reclus in recognition of his contributions to the early description and illustration of various geological features
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2020· 1 entry
Le Monde.fr: Élisée Reclus et l'Afrique
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2017· 1 entry
Sud Ouest: Élisée Reclus : un communard en exil
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2016· 1 entry
L'Humanité: Récit. Comment on devient Élisée Reclus
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2015· 2 entries
Libcom: On anarchist colonies - Elisée Reclus
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Libcom: Elisée Reclus and the city without limits – José Ardillo
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2011· 1 entry
L'Humanité: Élisée Reclus (1830-1905) Géographe, aérostier, figure de l’anarchie
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1905· 3 entries
Died 1905-07-04.
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Shortly before his death, Reclus completed L'Homme et la terre, in which he rounded out his previous works by considering humanity's development relative to its geographical environment
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“He knew how to die poor after having written wonderful books. And he knew how, having attained the high summits of fame, never to rule anybody and to remain the equal of his humblest collaborator and of every one he met with. He certainly was one of the finest specimens of civilized mankind, a man free in the purest sense of the word.”
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1894· 2 entries
Won Patron’s Medal (1894).
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Reclus was appointed chair of comparative geography at the Free University of Brussels, and moved with his family to Belgium
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1892· 1 entry
Was awarded the Gold Medal of the Paris Geographical Society for this work, despite having been banished from France because of his political activism
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1890· 1 entry
Reclus hosted Luigi Galleani at Lake Geneva in Switzerland, in the Reclus brothers' country house which at that time operated as a safe haven for dissidents fleeing persecution
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1882· 2 entries
Reclus initiated the Anti-Marriage Movement
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Also wrote Unions Libres, a pamphlet which detailed his anarchist and feminist objections to marriage
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1860· 1 entry
At 10 rue Bénard in Paris' 17th arrondissement
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1853· 1 entry
Reclus worked for about two and a half years as a tutor to the children of cousin Septime and Félicité Fortier at their plantation Félicité, located about 80 kilometres (50 miles) upriver from New Orleans
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1851· 1 entry
And completed his studies at the University of Berlin, where he followed a long course of geography under Carl Ritter and also studied political economy and the history of diseases
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1849· 2 entries
Without authorisation to take leave from the school, Élisée, Élie and Edouard journeyed on foot from Montauban to the Mediterranean Sea; shortly after this episode, the Reclus brothers were expelled from the school, in p
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Studied at Faculté libre de théologie protestante de Montauban (1848–1849).
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1830· 1 entry
Born 1830-03-15.
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