Pierre Besnard

Pierre Besnard
Born	(1886-10-08)8 October 1886 Montreuil-Bellay, French Third Republic
Died	19 February 1947(1947-02-19) (aged 60) Bagnolet, French Fourth Republic
Resting place	Père Lachaise Cemetery
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 anarcho-syndicalist. He was the co-founder and leader of the Confédération Générale du Travail-Syndicaliste Révolutionnaire (CGT-SR) and its successor the Confédération Nationale du Travail (CNT), and the principal theoretician of anarcho-syndicalism in France during the early 20th century.