Marie Le Compte was of French origin but settled in the United States, where she joined the Socialist movement, speaking and writing for that cause.
[3] Other delegates included Peter Kropotkin, Errico Malatesta, Saverio Merlino, Louise Michel and Émile Gautier.
She wrote several articles for the paper in 1883 reporting on the trial and imprisonment at Lyon of several anarchists, including Louise Michel, Émile Pouget and Kropotkin.
[12] The first number of The Anarchist published in 1885 in London by Henry Seymour held an announcement of a translation by Le Compte of Mikhail Bakunin's God and the State.
[13] The International Publishing Company announced that the profits from God & The State would go to the Red Cross of the Russian Revolutionary Party.