Title: Manifesto of the French Revolutionary Committee

Author: French Revolutionary Committee

Topics: 19th century anarchism, propaganda of the deed

Date: 15 June 1881

Source: https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Manifeste_du_Comit%C3%A9_r%C3%A9volutionnaire_fran%C3%A7ais

Notes: Manifesto of the "French Revolutionary Committee" accompanying the failed bombing in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, also known as the Thiers statue bombing. This was one of the earliest examples of propaganda by the deed in history and in France. Uri Eisenzweig described the manifesto as follows : 'This paradoxical semantic logic [...] was already at play before the ère des attentats properly speaking. [...] The attack (attentat) on the Thiers statue in 1881 is undoubtedly its very first manifestation and, as such, perhaps the most illuminating, as the shift in meaning from the act itself to the discourse it refers to occurs, as it were, before our eyes. [...] And indeed, even as it attempted to 'explain' the Saint-Germain[-en-Laye] attack, the accompanying text would paradoxically initiate a divorce from the iconoclastic heritage, in the form of a displacement of meaning outside the object, outside the symbol itself. [...] In other words, the strictly physical aspect of the violence was destined to fade here, if not to be annulled in favor of a meaning posited as being elsewhere [...] that is to say, in a reality that still belonged only to a project or a prophecy.'

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