Andre Lorulot

Andre Lorulot, born Georges Andre Roulot, is a free thinker and Anarchiste individualistic French born the October 23rd 1885 with Paris in the district of the " Large Caillou" and died in 1963 with Herblay. It presented to many recoveries its ideas anticlericals, in particular in her most famous book Why I am atheistic , appeared in 1933 and prefaced by Han Ryner. It chaired the National federation of the Freethinking a long time.

Beginnings

At the school, it is distinguished for its aptitudes in history. The belief as a God is for him a means of escaping from the misery in which he lives, but he loses the faith around fifteen years. He is constrained to leave the school at the fourteen years age to work in a Parisian editor. He gradually becomes thinker, atheist, materialist, antireligieux, democratic, socialist and engages in the social struggle. The first demonstrations to which it participle are organized by the Freethinking.

It reads the Radical and the Small Republic of Jean Jaurès, it waters works of Jules Guesde, Lafargue and Jean Jaurès, as well as publications of the Belgian Working Party. He hesitates between various political currents and he is anarchistic a certain time, but nauseated by divisions and the vain quarrels between the parties progressists (socialist, anarchistic…).

Anarchistic journalist

Impassioned by the reading and the writing, he is director of the review the Anarchie of 1909 to 1911, then he founds the free Idea in 1911 and the Cap in 1930, which enables him to escape the censure large newspapers vis-a-vis its revolutionary ideas and its combat for the women's rights.

Its entry in policy coincides with the polemical moment of the Dreyfus business. It is impassioned for this combat which it leads to the sides of the supporters of Dreyfus free thinkers, of which Emile Zola, Georges Clémenceau, Jean Jaurès and Sebastien Faure, and republicans, Socialists, libertarians, trade unionists. At the school already, it takes the defense of one of his comrades, a Jew named Roos, and boxes the blows with him. It was its " first making of contact with the injustice" . He denounces the " forgers of the State-Major" and the " dig peat of the décerveleurs antisémites" .

But he does not escape the justice which condemns it several times to custodial sentences throughout its life for minor reasons (to have whistled at the time of the passage of king d' Espagne in visit in Paris in 1905, provocation of soldiers to disobedience…). He is in particular imprisoned a year to have commented on a sentence antimilitarist of Aristide Briand who called with the revolt against the officers. Briand was then Ministre for Justice. " I was thus continued by Briand to have quoted a text of Briand" , points out Lorulot. Its lawyer was Gustave Herve. In prison he collaborates in several newspapers under pseudonyms, of which the Czech newspaper " Prace" , but the Austrian imperial Censure cut the three-quarters of its articles. He is also condemned to 15 month of prison for his booklet " The Patrie" Idol; .

Evolutions

It took part in an experiment of communist company to the Libertarian Colony of Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer. After the First World War it is devoted to the reorganization of the Freethinking. It moves away gradually from anarchism and supports the Revolution Bolshevik in the years 1920.

In 1933 a passport for Morocco is refused to him by the French authorities. The reason is that its name appeared in the file " Service of the anarchistes" , but also that the Italian government had complained near the French government which he criticized Mussolini in his conferences. To obtain its passport André Lorulot has to undertake not to criticize Mr. Mussolini during his conferences in Morocco. But to be avenged it began all its conferences by: " I engaged, to obtain a passport, not to attack Mr. Mussolini. Do thus not be surprised of my forced silence and want not to interpret it in a direction défavorable" .

It gives conferences in all France and outwards on very diverse topics, related to the topicality, such as " Fusilleurs and Fusillés" the shortly after the shootings of Narbonne and Villeneuve-saint-Georges, " Truths bandits" at the time of the business of the " gangsters tragiques" , " Does God exist? " , " Laic or moral morals religious? " , " The bankruptcy of the politique" , " Can one live without authority? " , " For or against the dictatorship? " at the beginning of the Russian Revolution, " True education sexuelle" , " The war in Abyssinie" , " Spain in feu" , " The Church and Guerre" , " Why I am athée" , " For or against the confession" , " The truth on Lourdes" , " The Church and Amour" , " Should the congregations be authorized? " , " The Church and travailleurs" , " Can one live without religion? " , " The Church and the fascisme" , " Is it necessary to accept the miracles? " , " Can a socialism be Christian? " , " The bankruptcy of Christianisme" , " Did Jesus-Christ exist? " , " Can the religion save the World? " , " Dieu" , etc This untiring worker published a number impressing of booklets and held 2500 to 3000 conferences. He also makes many debates with the clerical ones.

He is adherent during many years of the Company of the Men of letters but he resigns about it during the Occupation " because the aforementioned Company made celebrate, with the money of the members, of the masses for the rest of the heart of certain writers! "

During the Second world war, the Bergey abbot of the Gironde asks for his arrest.

Works

Socialism, Anarchism and Revolution (1910, in collaboration with Alfred Naquet)
Fusilleurs and shot, 1911
anarchistic theories (1911)
Crime and Société (prefaced by Doctor Legrain and professor Raphaël Dubois)
In the wolves (1920, painting of the anarchistic mediums and their drifts)
Meditations and memories of a prisoner (1921, illustrated by Small-Strix)
the true sex education (1926, prefaced by Doctor Voivenel)
the Sex education and in love with the woman
Cheatings and fakings of the love
scourging and sexual perversions
Women and young girls, be wary!
life and the work of the prostitutes
Our enemy: the woman
Her majesty the Love
One month in the priests (1927)
the Church and the war (1930, prefaced by Henri Barbusse and Victor Margueritte)
Why I am atheistic (1933, prefaced by Han Ryner)
German Barbarie and universal cruelty (prefaced by Auguste Forel)
Spain on fire
the men disgust me (1939)
Histoire of my life and my ideas (first edition 1943)
the great treason of 1940
the illustrated comic Bible (illustrations of Armangeol)
the comic life of Jesus (illustrations of Armangeol) ED. The Free idea 1934
sermons of the abbot Rasibus (illustrations of Armangeol)
illustrated History of the Popes (illustrations of Armangeol)
the Jesuits
the Church and Love (in collaboration with the Purple abbot)
the cassock in front of the love
the Church and the birth-control
the Church and the workers
the truth on the Christian trade unionism
For or against the Church (controversy with the Purple abbot)
Veracious history of the Church
the myth of Jesus
Christian paganism (in collaboration with Mr. Phusis)
the truth on Doors
Adventures of Auvergnat and Parisian with the pilgrimage of Doors
Which is necessary to think of the miraculous cures?
can one live without religion?
For or against Freemasonry?
Freemasonry and the popular War
Histoire of world Socialism
Paroles of Incroyant
the Men disgust me (Lampoon) (1963, editions the free Idea, Herblay)
My life, my ideas (1973, published by the Friends of Andre Lorulot)

Plays

Against the War
In the Trenches
the Invasion
My Kingdom is not this World (1934)
God will recognize to them his
the Morals of Croquemitaine (prefaced per G. of Lacaze-Duthiers)
In the jail of Free
the cobweb

Booklets

the Idol Fatherland
the Colony of St-Germain (1909)
is a Revolution possible? (1911)
the Crisis of the Democracy (1929)

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