[1] Reclus wrote syndicalist propaganda while an engineer at the Gare de Bessèges, from which he was fired in 1886.

Reclus attended the 1889 International Anarchist Congress in Paris, where he advocated for individual reclamation as an expression of propaganda by deed.

[1] Reclus came to manage a new factory at Varangéville in 1892 but quit when anarchists he had hired, including Désiré Pauwels, were fired.

He assumed the pseudonym Georges Guyon, a modification of a friend's name from whom Reclus borrowed legal documentation.

[1] Reclus and his family continued to Scotland in 1896, where he would work with the anarchist geographer Patrick Geddes, who ran the Edinburgh Outlook Tower museum of human geography.

He advocated for libertarian communism and participated in the French contingent of Solidarité internationale antifasciste (SIA) in the late 30s.