Les Enragés (literally "The Angry Ones") were a radical group active during the French Revolution (1789) opposed to the Jacobins. Initiated by Jacques Roux, Theophile Leclerc, Jean Varlet and others, they believed that liberty for all meant more than mere constitutional rights. Roux once said that "liberty is no more than an empty shell when one class is allowed to condemn another to starvation and no measures taken against them". The period of the French Revolution in the history of France covers the years between 1789 and 1799, in which democrats and republicans overthrew the absolute monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church was forced to undergo radical restructuring. ... Jacobin Club, the most famous of the political clubs of the French Revolution, had its origin in the Club Breton, which formed at Versailles shortly after the opening of the Estates General in 1789. ... Jacques Roux (1752-1794) was the leader of the Enragés faction in time of the French Revolution. ...

Les Enragés were brought back to life in France in 1968 by a group of students based at Nanterre University. They were heavily influenced by The situationists and would go on to be one of the leading groups in the May 1968 French insurrection. 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... The Situationist International (SI), an international political and artistic movement, originated in the Italian village of Cosio dArroscia on 28 July 1957 with the fusion of several extremely small artistic tendencies: the Lettrist International , the International movement for an imaginist Bauhaus, and the London Psychogeographical Association. ...

References

"Enragés and Situationists in the Occupation Movement, France, May'68" by René Viénet (published by Autonomedia / Rebel Press).

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