Salut Borràs i Saperas

Catalan anarchist militant, who participated in the Mexican Revolution along side her partner Octave Jahn in Emiliano Zapata's ranks, dies. Born in January 1878 in Barcelona, she was the eldest daughter of two anarchist members of the AIT, Martí(n) Borràs i Jover and Francesca Saperas i Miró, in the late 1880's and '90's, she assisted her mother in the distribution of subscription copies of the newspaper that her father had founded, 'Tierra y Libertad'. The partner of Lluís Mas Gasio since 1895, following his arrest after the attack on the Carrer de Canvis Nous in 1896, she was forced by the authorities to marry legally under the threat of her son Lluís being imprisoned, the ceremony taking place in a convent two hours before Lluís Mas' execution on May 4, 1897. She was also detained along with her mother and imprisoned a year before being expelled to France, where he settled in Marseille.

Active within the anarchist movement, she maintained contact with its prisoners, establishing contacts with clandestine committees and groups, secretly burying their dead, practising solidarity with the persecuted, etc. She began a relationship with the French anarchist Octave Jahn in Charanta (Jarnac, Cognac ...) and from 1908 lived in Mexico, where they participated in the revolution in the ranks of Emiliano Zapata's forces. In 1911, when Salud decided to return to Barcelona, Jahn remained in Mexico and Guatemala, whilst also carrying out propaganda trips around Europe, disseminating news of the Mexican Revolution on behalf of the Central Obrera del Món until his death on June 9, 1917 in Mexico. Salud Borràs settled in Paris in 1913 with her son and worked as a dressmaker, making constant trips between France, Catalonia and Mexico. In 1930 she returned to Barcelona, where she settled in a small house on the Calle de Robador, in the Raval district. Following the victory of the Franco regime, she went into exilein France. During a field trip her son was killed. Salut Borràs Saperas died on August 11, 1954 at the Salpetrière hospice in Paris.