Georges Louis François Yvetot was born in Paris on 20 July 1868 to a father of Norman origin.

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.

[1] Yvetot became an anarchist under the influence of Fernand Pelloutier, whom he helped as typographer on the Ouvrier des Deux Mondes.

He was working at the Petit Soir when Pelloutier died, and he succeeded him as secretary general of the Fédération des Bourses on 22 May 1901.

[1] In December 1902 Yvetot was one of the founders of the Ligue antimilitariste, along with fellow anarchists Henri Beylie, Paraf-Javal, Albert Libertad and Émile Janvion.

This was to become the French section of the Association internationale antimilitariste (AIA), which was the subject of intense police surveillance.

Yvetot and Miguel Almereyda (Eugène Vigo) led the French section and sat on the AIA committee.

[6] At the 1906 Amiens congress of the CGT Yvetot succeeded in passing a strongly unpatriotic motion, despite resistance from the leadership.

[7] Yvetot ran an organization called the Sou du Soldat (The soldier's farthing) which in theory helped young syndicalists by sending them small amounts of money when they were conscripted into the army.

In the spring of 1913 conscripts demonstrated against an extension of the duration of their military service, and on 1 July 1913 Yvetot and other CGT leaders were arrested.

[8] On 28 July 1914 Yvetot and the syndicalist leaders Léon Jouhaux, Georges Dumoulin and Alphonse Merrheim held meetings at the Salle Wagram where they opposed the war, and the Confederal Committee of the CGT stated that "In the current situation, the CGT reminds everyone that it is absolutely opposed to any war.

Many CGT leaders were affected by the surge of patriotism and actively supported the defense of republican liberties against German aggression.

Soon after he accepted leadership of the National Association of War Orphans in Étretat, and devoted himself to helping children.

He was briefly president of the Comité ouvrier de secours immédiat, created in March 1942, which helped working families affected by allied bombing.

He was cremated on 15 May 1942 and his ashes were deposited in Père Lachaise Cemetery in a ceremony attended by two hundred people.