Marius Jacob

Alexandre Marius Jacob (1879–1954), also known by the names Georges, Escande, Férau, Jean Concorde, Attila, and Barrabas, was a French anarchist and illegalist.

On 19 April 1900, he escaped from the Montperrin asylum in Aix-en-Provence with the assistance of a male nurse, Royère, and took refuge in Sète.

One such note, left at the church of Saint Sever in Rouen on 14 February 1901, read "Dieu des voleurs, recherche les voleurs de ceux qui en ont volé d’autres" ("God of thieves, look for the thieves of those who have stolen from others").

Throughout his imprisonment, he maintained correspondence with his mother Marie, who campaigned for her son's release among increasing public criticism of the penal colony.

On 14 July 1925, the then French president Gaston Doumergue commuted Jacob's sentence to five years' imprisonment to be served in France.

[1] While he never renounced his anarchist and anti-fascist convictions, he expressed doubt regarding the merits of illegalism at the end of his life.