Ernest Coeurderoy

Life & Legacy

Ernest Cœurderoy (1825–1862) was a French physician and revolutionary journalist. A participant in the French Revolution of 1848, he was forced into exile after its suppression. In Switzerland, he wrote extensively on the issue of socialism, synthesising his own form from mutualism and collectivism, and was harshly critical of the French republican leadership. He spent his remaining years in exile, even refusing a political amnesty from the French government, before committing suicide. His works were later rediscovered by the anarchists Max Nettlau and Jacques Gross, who claimed him to have been an early figure of the French anarchist movement.