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Syndicalism in France

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Victor Griffuelhes died on 30 July 1922. Sorel’s death followed a few weeks later at the end of August. For all their earlier, and in Sorel’s case later, notoriety both spent their final months in relative isolation and obscurity. A sadder fate befell Alphonse Merrheim. In June 1923 his articles attacking Bolshevism came to a sudden and unexplained end. He had, in fact, been committed to an asylum, the victim of a mental break-down from which he was not to recover. He died in October 1925. As for Auguste Keufer, after 36 years as its effective leader he finally retired from the Fédération du livre in 1920. At his death in 1924 he remained president of the Cercle des Prolétaires positivistes and vice-president of the Société positiviste internationale. Cautious to the last, one of his final public acts was to argue against the alteration of the positivist calendar on the grounds that ‘on this issue it is preferable to leave intact the work of Auguste Comte’.1

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Jennings, J. (1990). Diverging Paths. In: Syndicalism in France. St Antony’s. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08876-8_6

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