Georges Dulac

French anarchist and chocolatier.

Georges Dulac collaborated with the Torch, “organ of the enemies of authority” animated by Georges Butaud*. In May 1907, he was a signatory to the poster “To the soldiers” (see Mouchebbeuf). He then campaigned as an anarchist in Levallois-Perret, where he lived in the 6, impasse Gravel, at the same address as the brothers Alexandre Girard *and Maurice Girard* and Albert Jacquart*.

Georges Dulac frequented the Popular Talks of Albert Libertad and read L’Anarchy, organ of the individualists. After Libertad’s death, he disapproved of the scientific orientation that L’Anarchy took.

The anti-parliamentary campaign of the spring of 1910 caused him to tip over to the side of the communist anarchists. In The Social War of April 20, 1910, Almereyda described him as “a vibrating Gavroche, a kind of Titi of the Social [...] who is in Levallois the working-class ape of revolutionary propaganda.” On 21 May he summoned to Café Jules all the disappointed of the Popular Talks and publicly criticized Lorulot* for having misled the movement initiated by Libertad.

On 12 September 1910, he was appointed to the commission of reorganization of the Libertarian (see Pierre Martin), who reoriented the weekly to make it an exclusively anarchist communist and prosyndicalist revolutionary organ. He then became, for a month, manager of the Libertarian, replacing Hélène Lecadieu*. As of 16 October, he was arrested at the newspaper headquarters for three unsigned anti-militarist articles relating to the railway workers’ strike. During the search of the Libertaire, the police seized objects that could be used to make explosive devices. After several months in preventive prison, he went to trial on 24 February 1911 with a Libertarian editor, Anna Mahé*, who was also arrested for an anti-militarist article. They were defended by the lawyers Berthon and Ducos de la Haille, and acquitted.

Shortly after, Dulac left the Communist Revolutionary Federation (FRC) in which he had campaigned to join the Young Guards launched by The Social War, where he finally concentrated his activity. He soon became the manager of the Social War.

On 7 June 1911 he participated in the kidnapping of Bled* and Dudragne* and, indicted, preferred to flee. He did not appear, together with the other activists of the Social War, at the trial held from 7 to 9 October 1911.

He became manager of The Social War from September 18, 1912, and in the issue of December 10, 1912, co-signed the declaration “Why we enter the Socialist Party” (see Émile Tissier) and joined the section of Levallois of the PS. In 1914 he accepted the Sacred Union.

He had been exempted from military service but he committed as early as November 1914; in 1919 he had obtained several military decorations for “the most remarkable bravery.” Demobilized in July 1919, he moved to Levallois.

Faithful to Gustave Hervé, he followed him in his evolution and was in the interwar between wars militant of his National Socialist Party (PSN). In the legislative elections of April 1928 he appeared under this label in the 1st constituency of the 20th arrondissement and obtained 2 223 votes (1.4% of the votes cast).

During World War II, Dulac followed Hervé in his critical support for the Vichy regime. In 1946, he co-authored a book of testimony, The Truth about Gustave Hervé, to defend the honor of his late mentor.