Léo Campion

Léo Campion was born the March 24th 1905 with Paris, and deceased the March 6th 1992 in the same city, was a French chansonnier and caricaturist, Régent of Pygologie of the Collège of 'Pataphysique and Grand Master of the Brotherhood of the Knights.

In 1923, Léo Campion settled with Brussels where it met an anarchistic bookseller and freemason Marcel God alias Hem Day. It was initiated with the cabin the Friends philanthropists on April 7th, 1930 in Brussels and never reconsidered this engagement.

Expelled of the French territory following a campaign of the French Action, it turned over in Belgium where it was condemned, in 1933, in company of Hem Day in eighteen months of prison to have returned its military record with the shipper.

This fine anarchistic feather had also enough a great hit of pencil. From 1930 to 1936, he exerted his talents of caricaturist on behalf of the newspaper of Brussels the Red and the Black while beginning a career of chansonnier who will bring back it to Paris because “one does not make career of chansonnier in Brussels, Geneva or Bordeaux”. Its ceaseless outward journeys and arrivals between Paris and Brussels made of him an ideal messenger for French resistance. Thus Léo Campion, which had not required anything, received of the Release the Military Cross, a roof for this former maconnic secretary of the Committee for the conscientious objection and of the Belgian section of International of Resistant to the War.

After the Second world war, Léo Campion showed once again that it had more than one string to his/her bow while becoming actor, director of cabaret, and producer. It continued its militant activities in parallel. To tell the truth, there was no at his place rupture between the artist and the anarchist.

The black flag, the square and the compass - anarchists in Freemasonry

Léo Campion Editions Libertarian Alternative 108 pages - 2004.

This work was published first once into 1969 pennies the title: Anarchists in the Freemasonry.

This first publication was exclusively intended to the Freemasons. Later, it was re-examined and altered considerably before being again published, but this time for all the public ones and under the current title.

The work of Léo Campion remains single and irreplaceable. Of course, there exist many works, of very diverse quality, treating masonry. In the same way, the anarchistic library vast and is well provided. But only Léo Campion knew to say how much the ideals libertarian movement and Freemasonry could meet.

Through the biographies of anarchists and famous freemasons, Léo presents to us this humanism common to Freemasonry and Anarchism.

Contents

Preface of Michel Champendal

Introduction

First Part - the Old ones - Sylvain Marshal - the marquis de Sade - Proudhon - Michel Bakounine - Multatuli

Second part - Freemasons and the Commune of Paris - Eugene Pottier - Recluses - Louise Michel - Jules Vallès - Jean-Baptiste Clement

Third part - Paul Robin - Leaving - Domela Nieuwenhuis - Laurent Tailhade - Jacques Large - Sebastien Faure - Paraf-Javal - Francisco To shoe - Augustin Hamon - Montéhus - Jean Marestan - the war of 1914-1918 - the CNT-FAI

Fourth part - Small fraternal range - Charles d' Avray - Jean Biso - Voline - Jules Rivet - Henri Chassin - Rémy-Pierre Bowel - Jean Roumilhac - Gaston Leval - Michel Herbert - Emestan - Hem Day - Andre Prévotel - Suzy Bedside - Rene-Louis Lafforgue - Delgado - Ego-bracket - Conclusion.

Appendix - an investigation of the Anarchistic Review - the Role of Freemasonry - Plea for Freemasonry - Replies to the survey - Around the investigation - Addition - Which Follows - Conclusion.

Preface

“It is necessary to make with humor the serious things and serious the funny things”. It was the currency of Léo Campion and I think that it illustrates the best possible its double personality. Chansonnier-humorist, histrion as he liked to say it, and high-dignitary of the Freemasonry which he attended during more than 60 years.

Léo, Louis, Octave Campion were born in Montmartre into 1905 from a Belgian father and a Montmartrean mother, which made of him Belgian of Parisian and most Parisian of the Belgians.

Installed since 1923 in Brussels, it becomes acquainted with Marcel God, anarchistic secondhand bookseller who will make known to him the Freemasonry to which it will adhere later, on April 7th, 1930. At that time, it begins a career of draftsman humorist, draws for the newspapers and presents a number on scene. But Brussels is too small for him; one can succeed only in Paris. It there tries its chance and occurs in various cabarets and, very quickly the drawing gives up on scene to keep only the humorous text. With horse on Paris and Brussels, there remains Belgian citizen and in 1933, outraged of a bill prohibiting any pacifist propaganda, with his friend Marcel God he returns his military record to the Minister for the national defense of then, Mr Albert Devèze. A lawsuit follows resounding on July 19th, 1933 when Léo Campion makes use of its humor to cover ridiculous court and the authorities.

In Brussels, Marcel God and Léo Campion lodge, in the years preceding the war by Spain, the Spanish anarchists Ascaso and Durruti. A great friendship is born between Léo and Ascaso. And Léo often entrusted to me that he had cried with died of Ascaso, killed in Barcelona, in the first days of the Revolution.

Its career of chansonnier becomes increasingly brilliant and its name starts to be known. At the time of the occupation he lives in Paris. As a foreigner and probably also on his sulfurous reputation it is interned with the camp of Argelès. It succeeds in thanks to its friendships being made release. After the Release, its career of chansonnier takes another dimension because it adds to it also that of actor. Jean Renoir, inter alia, the fact of turning and its more amusing claim to fame is to have sung the title role of Phi-Phi to the theater, him which was absolutely impermeable with the music.

He also held about 1965 the main role (a police inspector!) of televised series of 6 episodes, the brigade of the evil spells .

In parallel, its rise in continuous Masonry, it will climb successively all the degrees until the 33ème and will sit at the Consistory of Ile-de-France. But he liked to say: “That does not prevent me from remaining simple”. Its engagement maconnic was deep. I can certify it because us discussed much it, since it made me the honor be sponsored with the Great East.

Its literary work is double. On a side a great number of works of mood, of which most known is Small illustrated Campion, and other of the works maconnic, for example Sade Franc-Maçon and that republished today, the black flag, the square and the compass.

Léo rests with the cemetery of Saint-Ouen. Irony of fate, in the same cemetery that Alphonse Allais that he admired so much. If you spend the evening Michelet avenue to Saint-Ouen, perhaps you will hear their laughter if it is the hour of the pun and Scottish liquor.

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