Ère des attentats

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The Ère des attentats (French for 'Era of Attacks'), or the French anarchist campaign of attacks from 1892 to 1894, was a period in the history of France and the broader history of propaganda of the deed, marked by a significant wave of political violence, both from the French authorities and anarchist terrorists. Its chronological boundaries extend from the Saint-Germain bombing (11 March 1892) to the massacre of the anarchist convicts (22 October 1894). During this period, the French press largely shaped political discourse and public opinion, presenting these acts as interconnected events forming a progressive logic rather than isolated incidents. In response to the significant repression anarchists had suffered in France since the Paris Commune (1871), a number of them came to consider terrorism as a legitimate means of avenging this repression, targeting symbols of power, state institutions, and emblematic places of bourgeois life. During the first part of the period, Ravachol, Théodule...

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