Paul-Eugène Trouillier

French gardener, labourer, itinerant singer, anarchist and anti-militarist.

Paul Trouillier had organized in 1903, in Toulon, the union of men of sorrow that met at the Bar of the International Armies, 19, rue de l’Arsenal. Arrested in Hyères, he was sentenced on 19 February 1904 by the Criminal Court of Toulon to fifteen months in prison for "armed threats against the military".

He then reached the Paris region where he would then have worked as a gardener at the Ruche de Sébastien Faure.

In April-May 1910, he was an abstentionist candidate in the legislative elections in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris, on behalf of the Anti-Parliamentary Revolutionary Committee (see Jules Grandjouan). He was then domiciled 17 bis, rue Saint-Denis in Rosny-sous-Bois.

In October 1910, the police strongly suspected him of being the main perpetrator of the small bomb attacks that enamelled the strike of the railway workers for the “thune”. However, unable to establish proof of this, the police carried out a raid on the evening of October 15 at the Restaurant coopératif de la rue de Bretagne, where they knew they could find Paul Trouillier. He was arrested there with André Oslen and Raymond Clauvicourt. All three were sentenced to prison for carrying a prohibited weapon: six months for Trouillier, two months for each of the other two. The police found that the attacks had therefore ceased.

Released in April 1911, Paul Trouillier, without a fixed home, campaigned in the Paris 13th group of the FRC. He joined Eugène Moucheboeuf and André Schneider (see these names) and, as early as May, was a member of the federal committee of the FRC. He was also a member of the CGT Gardeners Union. The same month, the police acquired the conviction that Trouillier, Moucheboeuf and Schneider were preparing attacks of the same kind as those of 1894, against various buildings representing the public authority (commissions, prefecture, etc.) as well as the headquarters of the yellow unions, 57 rue du Temple.

All three were placed for several days under close supervision. Then the case leaked in the press that made it his fat sprouts, making hypotheses about the participants in the “conspiracy”. Names were published: Trouillier, Schneider, Mautouchet, Almereyda and Malato. Quickly enough, L’Humanité and La Bataille syndicaliste mocked the “pseudo-conspiracy” about which the police were unable to provide evidence, and while Malato threatened to file a defamation complaint. The case would have ended in pudding if police had not arrested and searched the three suspects and accidentally discovered stolen pens, which allowed him to charge Moucheboeuf and Schneider for theft. On 31 July 1911 he was sentenced to corrections: Moucheboeuf to six months in prison, Schneider to eighteen months and a certain Dubois to eight months.

During the June 4 Congress of 1911, expelled, with Louis Jakmin, an individualist anarchist who disturbing the meeting. The trail of his life is lost from that date.