Pierre Besnard
Born	(1886-10-08)October 8, 1886 Montreuil-Bellay, French Third Republic
Died	February 19, 1947(1947-02-19) (aged 60) Bagnolet, French Fourth Republic
Occupation	Railway worker
Employer	Chemins de fer de l'État
Organizations	CGT-SR IWA–AIT
Movement	Anarchism

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Pierre Besnard (8 October 1886 – 19 February 1947) was a French revolutionary syndicalist. He was the Secretary of the Confédération Générale du Travail-Syndicaliste Révolutionnaire (CGT-SR) from 1929, and the Secretary of the International Workers' Association.

Selected works

• Les syndicats ouvriers et la révolution sociale, Paris, 1930
• Le monde nouveau, CGT-SR, 1936
• L'éthique du syndicalisme, CGT-SR, 1936

Besnard was also a contributor to Sébastien Faure's Encyclopédie anarchiste.

Bibliography

• Maitron, Jean; Davranche, Guillaume (2021-08-17), BESNARD Pierre [Eugène, Pierre Besnard, dit] (in French), Paris: Maitron/Editions de l'Atelier, retrieved 2022-02-18

External links

• Biography of Pierre Besnard from the Daily Bleed's Anarchist Encyclopedia
• Fondation Pierre Besnard (in French)

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