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Thierry Marignac (born 1958 in Paris) is a French writer and journalist. [1]
Marignac was married to Natalya Medvedeva in 1985. In a column composed shortly after her death, Marignac wrote that the marriage had been enacted in order to allow Medvedeva to remain in Paris.
In another column, Marignac recounts his youth and his growing aversion to politics:
Marignac is a former amateur boxer and is an avid boxing fan, which is partly reflected in his novel Renegade Boxing Club. [2]
Marc Ferro was a French historian.
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Daniel Guérin was a French libertarian-communist author, best known for his work Anarchism: From Theory to Practice, as well as his collection No Gods No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism in which he collected writings on the idea and movement it inspired, from the first writings of Max Stirner in the mid-19th century through the first half of the 20th century. He is also known for his opposition to Nazism, fascism, capitalism, imperialism and colonialism, in addition to his support for the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) during the Spanish Civil War. His revolutionary defense of free love and homosexuality influenced the development of queer anarchism.
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