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Paul Ambroise Paillette known as Paul Paillette (born in Paris April 16, 1844, died in 1920) is a French poet and singer from Montmartre. He is an anarchist, vegetarian and supporter of the free love movement.

Biography:
Paul Paillette was born in Paris on April 16, 1844.

He became a carpentry worker.

It was only when he was 33 in 1887 that he attended anarchist meetings and joined various anarchist groups in Paris.

The following year, in 1888, he took part in the movement against the employment agencies.

According to the police, he was in favor of violent actions against these establishments.

Accustomed to the cabarets of Montmartre, he gradually became a songwriter and poet.

Beside his poems, where he sings the society of his dreams, which can, of course, only be an anarchist society, one can find occasional verses extolling the merits of several breweries.

He animates, with his songs, many libertarian parties.

His most famous song “Time of Anarchy” or “Happy Times” is published in The Libertarian in 1895. He was then 50 years old, an old age for the time. This song is sung on the melody of “Le temps des cerises”.

It is so successful that non-anarchist revolutionaries will also use it.

To rid it of its anarchist content, they will replace the first verse coming back at the beginning of each of the 7 chorus: When we are in the time of anarchy, When we are at the time of harmony, Paul Paillette publishes his poems in the form of pamphlets which he sells on his own.

He then brings them together in a collection entitled Les Tablettes d'un lézard (Tablets of a Lizard). There are many, more or less complete, editions.

In addition to his anarchist convictions Paul Paillette proclaims himself a supporter of free love and practices vegetarianism.

In 1891, he organizes vegetarian lunches in the dining room of a Parisian restaurant.

They become a meeting place for love-libertarians, under the motto: "All happiness has its nest in common happiness. Free woman, free love. "

In 1910, poor, he lives in a home

Several parties are organized to support him financially. L'Université Populaire organizes one on November 9, 1913.

During the Great War he collaborated in several newspapers: Pendant la mêlée, Par-delà la mêlée, La Bataille and CQFD. His poem “Civilization” is censored.

In November 1916 a party to raise funds for the poet was organized with the help of Xavier Privas and the participation of Sébastien Faure. He is considered at the time as the oldest of Montmartre’s singers.

Le Libertaire of February 29, 1920 announces his death.

According to the Montmartre singer Léon de Bercy, he is the author of 10,000 verses most often published in pamphlets containing only a few pages.

Bercy wrote about Paul Paillette:"The work of Paillette is the exact painting of the state of mind of its author: it preaches freedom and harmony, exalts carnal love and combats bourgeois prejudices."

Some works

 * Les enfants de la nature


 * Heureux Temps


 * Profession de foi


 * Viv’ment brave ouverier