La Ruche ("The Hive") was a French school founded by Sébastien Faure on anarchist principles.
The anarchist Sébastien Faure founded La Ruche on 20 hectares of leased farmland in Le Pâtis, near Rambouillet, on the outskirts of Paris in 1904.
This was during Faure's trial for sexually assaulting young girls in a Parisian flea market in September 1917, with this testimony being uncovered as part of larger revelations of his pedophilia.
La Ruche offered Esperanto lessons through the age of 10, when children were put into pre-apprenticeships that rotated between workshops multiple times per month.
[1] Following La Ruche's closure, Faure's disciple Aristide Lapeyre established the Elan school of Villeneuve-sur-Lot, which persisted from the 1930s through World War II.