Félicien Bonnet

French carpenter and anarchist militant. After having campaigned for a time with the Republicans and then the radical socialists, he joined in 1881, The anarchists. Member of the "Federation revolutionary of the Eastern region" and collaborator of the workers' newspaper "The Social Law" and then the "Etendard revolutionary.” He was arrested on November 19 1882, after the violent demonstrations of Montceau-les-Mines and the attack on Place Bellecour in Lyon. He's judged from 8 January 1883 in the context of the so-called trial of 66. First sentenced to 15 months in prison, his sentence will be reduced to 1 year imprisonment. In 1891, He creates an anarchist group in Vaise, but that attracts police surveillance that arrests him and raided his home on April 22, 1892. He's back in freedom on May 3, but this new intimidation police officer seems to have been the reason for his activism, where he was more discreet.