A TEST OF SHORT BIOGRAPHY

(source:m.m. of the Committee)

September 30, 1888: Saint-Amand-Monrond birth (Expensive).

1901: Certificate of primary studies.

1904: diploma of agriculture.

1905: L.l. "go up " to Paris.

1° Mai 1906: first arrest.

1907: arrest during a demonstration of gardeners. It is condemned to 3 months of prison.

December 1907: incorporation with 85) of infantry with Cosne.

October 17, 1910: it refuses to intervene against a strike of railwaymen.

November 1910 it is condemned to six months of prison by a military tribunal.

March 1912: it adheres to the anarchistic communist Federation

October 1912 it is elected secretary of the FCA.

November 15, 1912: it is stopped to have published a poster antimilitarist.

December 19, 1912: it is condemned to five years of prison.

November 1916 it leaves prison.

December 7, 1916: it prints a leaflet entitled: let us impose peace.

December 11, 1917: it is stopped for diffusion of illegal leaflets

September 1917 again released, it refuses to join its unit.

December 1917: it is condemned to five years of prison for insubordination, plus eighteen months for subversive remarks.

November 1920 it finds freedom.

December 1920: he becomes administrator of the Libertarian.

August 1921: it represents the workers of the building to the congress of the C.g.t.

June 1922: it is delegated to the congress of the C.g.t.u.

1922: it shares its existence with Marie Morand

June 1924: birth of Josette, only daughter of L.l. and Marie Morand

October 1926 It launches the countryside to save Sacco and Vanzetti.

1928: He becomes corrector of printing works.

April 1931 first stay in Spain.

October 1936 it melts the Committee for Spain Libre.

October 17, 1937: Marriage of Louis and Marie

November 1937 it melts International Solidarity Antifascist

September 1939 Lecoin makes sign a proclamation against the war ("immediate Peace ". It is stopped.

August 1941: it is released.

1945: it takes its retirement of corrector

1947: publication of its first autobiography Of prison in prison.

October 1948 Lecoin launches the Défense " review of the Man "

July 1955 It leaves Défense of the Man

December 29, 1956: died of Marie Morand

31 Janvier 1958: Lecoin melts Liberté and begins its countryside in favour of the conscientious objection.

1° June June -22, 1962: hunger strike de.la for obtaining, a statute of the conscientious objection.

December 21, 1963: vote statute of the conscientious objectors.

1964 and 1966 candidate with the Nobel Prize of Peace

October 1965 publication of its second autobiography the course of a life

December 1967: Lecoin creates the Committee for the extinction of the wars.

June 1971: Died of Louis Lecoin, it has 83 years