Georges Yvetot
French typographer (1868-1942)
Georges Louis François Yvetot (20 July 1868 – 11 May 1942) was a French typographer, anarcho-syndicalist and anti-militarist. He was secretary general of the Fédération des Bourses de travail (Federation of Workers' Councils) and deputy secretary general of the Confédération générale du travail (CGT – General Confederation of Labour) in the period leading up to World War I (1914–18). He kept a low profile during the war, and in 1918 was dismissed from the CGT leadership. After the war he contributed to many anarchist journals. He died in poverty during World War II (1939–45).
Early years
Georges Louis François Yvetot was born in Paris on 20 July 1868 to a father of Norman origin.
He was born in the Minimes barracks, where his father was a gendarme.
His mother died, and then his father, while he was young.
He was raised by the Brothers of Christian Doctrine and the Auteuil center for orphan apprentices, where he trained as a typographer from 1880 to 1887.
He contracted pulmonary tuberculosis and was therefore not required to serve in the army.
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