Charles-Auguste Bontemps
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Charles-Auguste Bontemps (1893–1981) was a French individualist anarchist, pacifist
, freethinker
and naturist
activist and writer.
department of France. He collaborates in the anarchist publication Ce qu'il faut dire led by Sebastien Faure
. After briefly joining the French Communist Party shortly after the ongoing October Revolution he joins the anti-militarist organization "Ligue Internationale des Réfractaires à la guerre". During the time of the Spanish Civil War he joins the "Solidarité Internationale Antifasciste".
He was an important personality in the foundation of the francophone Anarchist Federation. The new base principles of the francophone Anarchist Federation were written by Bontemps and Maurice Joyeux which established an organization with a plurality of tendencies and autonomy of federated groups organized around synthesist principles. He also participates in the refoundation of the francophone Anarchist Federation in 1953. Around 1967 Bontemps alongside Maurice Joyeux and Guy Bodson on the francophone Anarchist Federation´s journal Le Monde libertaire had an exchange of criticism with the Situationist International to which he was responded by Guy Debord
and others on that organization.
He was a prolific author mainly in the anarchist, freethinking, pacifist and naturist
press of the time. His view on anarchism was based around his concept of "Social Individualism" on which he wrote extensively. He defended an anarchist perspective which consisted on "a collectivism of things and an individualism of persons."
He died on October 14, 1981 in Paris.
– Contre-Courant, Paris, 1951, n.p. [aCCFR, CP]
– gr. Maurice-Joyeux (FA), Paris, 1996, 20 p. [aCCFR]
Félix de la forêt, illust. d'Aline Aurouet, Les Cahiers francs, Paris, 1959, 116 p. [CCFR, CDA, CIRA-M, CP, IFHS, IIHS]
Presles, 1926, 223 p. [CCFR, CP, IIHS]
Anarcho-pacifism
Anarcho-pacifism is a tendency within the anarchist movement which rejects the use of violence in the struggle for social change. The main early influences were the thought of Henry David Thoreau and Leo Tolstoy while later the ideas of Mohandas Gandhi gained importance...
, freethinker
Freethought
Freethought is a philosophical viewpoint that holds that opinions should be formed on the basis of science, logic, and reason, and should not be influenced by authority, tradition, or other dogmas...
and naturist
Anarcho-naturism
Anarcho-naturism appeared in the late 19th century as the union of anarchist and naturist philosophies. Mainly it had importance within individualist anarchist circles in Spain, France, Portugal...
activist and writer.
Life and works
Bontemps was born on February, 9 1893, in the NièvreNièvre
Nièvre is a department in the centre of France named after the Nièvre River.-History:Nièvre is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790...
department of France. He collaborates in the anarchist publication Ce qu'il faut dire led by Sebastien Faure
Sébastien Faure
Sébastien Faure was a French anarchist . He was a main proponent of the anarchist organizational form known as synthesis anarchism.- Biography :Before becoming a free-thinker, he was a seminarist...
. After briefly joining the French Communist Party shortly after the ongoing October Revolution he joins the anti-militarist organization "Ligue Internationale des Réfractaires à la guerre". During the time of the Spanish Civil War he joins the "Solidarité Internationale Antifasciste".
He was an important personality in the foundation of the francophone Anarchist Federation. The new base principles of the francophone Anarchist Federation were written by Bontemps and Maurice Joyeux which established an organization with a plurality of tendencies and autonomy of federated groups organized around synthesist principles. He also participates in the refoundation of the francophone Anarchist Federation in 1953. Around 1967 Bontemps alongside Maurice Joyeux and Guy Bodson on the francophone Anarchist Federation´s journal Le Monde libertaire had an exchange of criticism with the Situationist International to which he was responded by Guy Debord
Guy Debord
Guy Ernest Debord was a French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationist International . He was also briefly a member of Socialisme ou Barbarie.-Early Life:Guy Debord was born in Paris in 1931...
and others on that organization.
He was a prolific author mainly in the anarchist, freethinking, pacifist and naturist
Anarcho-naturism
Anarcho-naturism appeared in the late 19th century as the union of anarchist and naturist philosophies. Mainly it had importance within individualist anarchist circles in Spain, France, Portugal...
press of the time. His view on anarchism was based around his concept of "Social Individualism" on which he wrote extensively. He defended an anarchist perspective which consisted on "a collectivism of things and an individualism of persons."
He died on October 14, 1981 in Paris.
Writings
- L'Anarchisme et le réel. Essai d'un rationalisme libertaire, illust. d'Aline Aurouet, Les Cahiers francs, Paris, 1963, 185 p. [CCFR, CDA, CIRA-L, CP, IFHS, IIHS] [PDF 520 Ko]
- L’Anarchisme et l’évolution, éd. du gr. Maurice-Joyeux (FA), Paris, 1996, 31 p. [aCCFR]
- Les Artisans de l’avenir, éd. du gr. Maurice-Joyeux (FA), Paris, 1998, 15 p. [aCCFR]
- Attaqués par un loup (conte), illust. par R. Marmottin, Les Editions de l'âme française, Paris, 1946, 12 p. [CCFR]
- Ba-ta-clan : histoire de quatre ans en dix petites images d'Epinal, dessin hors texte de Germain Delatousche, Les Cahiers critiques et satiriques, n° 1 [pas d'autres numéros à notre connaissance], Paris, 1923, n.p. [56] [CCFR, CIRA-L, CIRA-M, CP, IFHS, IIHS]
- Carré d'as et oraisons, éd. Les Cahiers francs, Paris, 1976, 20 p. [CCFR, CDA, IFHS, IIHS]
- La Croyance en Dieu [aCCFR]
- Le Démocrate devant l'autorité, Les Cahiers francs, Paris, 1949, 93 p. [CCFR, CDA, CIRA-M, CP, IFHS, IIHS] [PDF 296 Ko]
- Destins (poèmes), illust. d'Aline Aurouet, éd. Les Cahiers francs, Paris, 1961, 102 p. [CCFR, CIRA-M, IFHS, IIHS]
- Deux conférences : Polyandrie et prostitution ; L’Esprit libertaire, Contre-Courant n° 18, Paris, 1955, 46-XII p. [aCCFR, IFHS]
- Dieu et mon Roy, le pape contre Maurras, éd. de l’Epi, Paris, 1929, 62 p. [CCFR, CDA]
- Du soleil sur la route, poèmes satiriques, Les Cahiers critiques et satiriques, Paris, 1924, 73 p. [CCFR]
- Eloge de l'égoïsme, La Propagande par la brochure, Vieux-Vy-sur-Couesnon (Ille-et-Vilaine), 2000, n.p. [aCCFR,aIIHS, CIRA-L]
- L'Esprit libertaire, éd. Ce qu’il faut dire, Paris, 1946, n.p. [aCCFR, CDA, IIHS] ; rééd.
– Contre-Courant, Paris, 1951, n.p. [aCCFR, CP]
– gr. Maurice-Joyeux (FA), Paris, 1996, 20 p. [aCCFR]
Félix de la forêt, illust. d'Aline Aurouet, Les Cahiers francs, Paris, 1959, 116 p. [CCFR, CDA, CIRA-M, CP, IFHS, IIHS]
- La Femme et la sexualité, Les Cahiers francs, Paris, 1956, 288 p. [CCFR, IFHS, IIHS]
- Grappilles sur un fond d'individualisme social. Opinions et commentaires, illust. d'Aline Aurouet, éd. Les Cahiers francs, Paris, 1984, 103 p. [CCFR, CP, IFHS]
- L’Homme devant l’Eglise, cinq conférences polémiques sur l’Eglise et l’évolution, Les Cahiers francs, Paris, 1931, 212 p. [CCFR, CDA, CIRA-L, CIRA-M, CP, IFHS, IIHS]
- L'Homme et la liberté, Les Cahiers francs, n° 4, Paris, 1955, 204 p. [CCFR, CDA, CP, IFHS, IIHS] [PDF 500 Ko]
- L'Homme et la propriété, Les Cahiers francs, Paris, 1959, 94 p. [CCFR, CDA, CIRA-L, IFHS, IIHS] [PDF 364 Ko]
- L’Homme et la race, Les Cahiers francs, Paris, 1951, 91 p. [CCFR, CDA, CIRA-M, CP, IFHS, IIHS] [L’IFHS signale une autre édition : Lib. Claudian, Paris, 1951, 94 p.]
- Immanences (poetry), Les Cahiers francs, Paris, 1970, 92 p. [CCFR, CDA]
- L'Individualisme social. Résumé et commentaires, Les Cahiers francs, Paris, 1967, 45 p. [CCFR, CDA, IFHS, IIHS] [PDF 284 Ko] ; rééd. gr. Maurice-Joyeux (FA), Paris, 1995, 15 p. [aCCFR]
- Intermittences, introd. de H. de Madaillan, La Goëlette, Paris, 1953, 117 p. [CCFR, CIRA-M, IFHS, IIHS]
- Les Majordomes du ciel, la congrégation et les droits de l’enfant, éd. de l’Epi, coll. Les Cahiers satiriques, n° 1, Paris, 1928, 63 p. [CCFR, CDA, CP]
- Marginales [« Soixante-cinq années de poésie »], illust. d'Aline Aurouet, introd. (posthume) de Henry de Madaillan, Les Cahiers francs, Paris, 1979, 316 p. [CCFR, CP]
- Miroir d'hommes. Notes à l’envers sous un angle d'individualisme social, Les Cahiers francs, Paris, 1972, 218 p. [CCFR, CDA, CP, IFHS, IIHS]
- Nudisme (pourquoi, comment), postf. de M.K. de Mongeot, 28 photographies, éd. de Vivre, coll. de la Libre Culture, 1930, 188 p. [CCFR, CP, IFHS, IIHS]
- Octogenèses (et) Florales (poésies), illust. d'Aline Aurouet, Les Cahiers francs, Paris, 1977, 82 p. [CCFR, CP]
- L’Œuvre de l’homme et son immoralité, éd. de l’Epi, Paris, 1927, 178 p. [CCFR, CDA, IIHS]
- Paganes (poèmes), illust. d'Aline Aurouet, musique de Germaine Bontemps, éd. Les Cahiers francs, Paris, 1962, 51 p. [aCCFR, IFHS, IIHS]
- Peut-on croire encore au progrès ? Controverse, n° 1, Paris, 1932, 64 p. [aCCFR, IFHS]
- Polyandrie et prostitution [aCCFR]
- Pro amicis, notes biographiques et correctives, préf. d'Aline Aurouet, Les Cahiers francs, Paris, 1974, 57 p. [CCFR, CDA, IIHS]
- Les Serfs du Vatican. L'Eglise contre le peuple. De Marc Sangnier au Père Philippe, éd. de l'Epi, coll. Les Cahiers satiriques, n° 2, Paris, 1929, 63 p. [CCFR, CP]
- Synthèse d’un anarchisme évolutif, Paris, 1952, 5 p. [aCCFR, IFHS, IIHS]
- Ton cœur et ta chair. L'amour et le mariage à travers les âges, dessins de Germain Delat
Presles, 1926, 223 p. [CCFR, CP, IIHS]
External links
- L'Esprit Libertaire by Charles-Auguste Bontemps digital online version in French
- Synthese d'un Anarchisme Evolutif by Charles-Auguste Bontemps digital online version in French
- ELOGE DE L'EGOÏSME par Charles-Auguste Bontemps in french
- "Un critérium libertaire de la révolution" by Charles-Auguste Bontemps in french
- "Le progrès dans la révolution" by Charles-Auguste Bontemps in french