The Bonnot GangThis is the story of the infamous Bonnot Gang: the most notorious French anarchists ever, and the inventors of the motorized get-away. It is the story of how the anarchist taste for illegality developed into illegalism - the theory that theft is liberating. And how a number of young anarchists met in Paris in the years before the first world war, determined to live their lives to the full, regardless of the inevitable - and tragic - consequences. A gripping historical thriller, Parry narrates their lives and background - a Paris of riots, strikes and savage repression. A stronghold of foreign exiles and home-grown revolutionaries. Victor Serge and 'l'anarchie' the individualist weekly. Their robberies, daring and violent, would give them a lasting notoriety in France. Their deaths, as spectacular as their lives, would make them a legend amongst revolutionaries the world over. Not only that, but they were all vegetarians, who drank only water! |
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Two A new beginning | 21 |
Three The rebels | 33 |
Four Anarchy in suburbia | 47 |
Five Bonnot | 64 |
Six The gang forms | 73 |
Seven The birth of tragedy | 80 |
Nine Calm before the storm | 103 |
Ten Kings of the road part two | 113 |
Eleven The Sûreté fights back | 120 |
Twelve Twilight of the idols | 129 |
Thirteen In the belly of the beast | 147 |
Fourteen The end of anarchism? | 166 |
Epilogue | 175 |
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