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and was a member of the Central Committee of
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the Federated National Guard in the Paris Commune.
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He fled under a sentence of death to Spain.
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And in Catalonia he worked in the mines,
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turning from socialism to anarchism;
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because the anarchists were terribly influential in Spain
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right through the Spanish Civil War,
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particularly in Barcelona and also in Andalusia,
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in the south.
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eMile was born in 1872 in a suburb of Barcelona, dominated by the textile factories.
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He had two brothers, Fortune, who was older,
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who had the same name as his father, and Jules, who was fifteen in 1894.