Émile Pouget
French anarchist · France · On the map · Journalists · Lived 1860 to 1931 · aged 70
Émile Pouget was a French journalist, anarchist pamphleteer and trade unionist, known for his pivotal role in the development of revolutionary syndicalism in France. His iconic newspaper, Le Père Peinard, stood out from previous anarchist publications with its inventive use of vernacular and urban slang.
Émile Pouget is read about 29 times a day, in 12 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 19 June 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
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Portrait by Aristide Delannoy
First lines of his anticolonial article 'French Barbarity', discussing the colonization of Vietnam (12 January 1890)
Illustration on the cover of the 1894 Almanach du Père Peinard
1906 logo of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT)
Stand of the CNT-Construction in Paris during the 1st May 2026, selling T-Shirts of anarchist figures, including PougetAbout this person
Notably, Pouget introduced the term "sabotage" as a tactical approach, a concept later adopted by the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) at its Toulouse Congress in 1897. Pouget's combination of anarchist political theory and revolutionary syndicalist tactics has led several authors to identify him as an early anarcho-syndicalist.
