Jean Grave

Jean Grave (died 1939 December 8 in France) was an important activist, novelist, and publisher in the French anarchist and avant‐garde movements. Involved with Élisée Reclusʼs “Révolté.” Wrote Mouvement libertaire sous la IIIe république.

A popularizer of Peter Kropotkinʼs ideas, Grave wrote La société mourante et lʼanarchie (1892), prefaced by Octave Mirbeau, for which he was sent to prison for two years. In 1895 he began publishing “Les temps nouveaux,” influential in literary and artistic circles of the time, then followed this with “The New Times” and “Publications.”

A signatory to the “Proclamation of the 16” (favoring the allies during WWI), Jean Grave incurred the wrath of antiwar anarchists.