The last law was passed on July 28, 1894, and condemned any person or newspaper using anarchist propaganda (and, by extension, libertarian socialists who were current or former members of the International Workingmen's Association (IWA)): 1.
Either by provocation or by apology... [anyone who has] encouraged one or several persons in committing either theft, or the crimes of murder, plunder, fire...; 2.
[2]Thus, free speech and encouraging propaganda of the deed or antimilitarism were severely restricted.
Some people were condemned to prison for rejoicing at the 1894 assassination of French president Sadi Carnot by the Italian anarchist Sante Geronimo Caserio.
[3] The term has since entered popular language to designate any harsh or unjust laws, in particular anti-terrorism legislation which often broadly represses whole social movements.