Biography I

Of course, the Adjutant was hardly known in the party for his oratory. Rather dismissibly, but by no means meagerly, established his renown among the other members of the various Anarchist faction. The press knew him as the man who, “made advances upon [the Infanta] upon her acquittal from [the Filibuster Affair]” (Conard, 1889). The aristocracy lampooned him as, “that lascivious gamin” (Cleant, 1887). Most memorably, though, he boldly, or foolishly, proposed the unimaginable. Even before the Events of 1895, before the Aphoristic Leaflets and the October Bill, he unfathomably suggested that the national anthem be changed to “La Ravachole”!