Reclus family

The Reclus family's notoriety is primarily the result of Jacques and Zéline's five sons: Élie, Élisée, Paul, Armand, and Onésime.

[1] The family became known for their distinctive careers in geography, anarchism, journalism, medicine, and other fields during the 19th and 20th centuries.

[8] Zéline was the daughter of Pierre Pascal Trigant de la Faniouse (1775-1840) and Rosalie Gast (1784-1871).

[13] A local, Francis Jammes, wrote that "every student left [the school] singularly distinguished in manners, whatever class they came from".

[15] During their childhoods, the Reclus family was then based in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, in the Gironde region of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine department in Southwestern France.

[21] He collaborated with anarchist contemporaries Errico Malatesta, Luigi Galleani, Mikhail Bakunin, and Peter Kropotkin.

Armand took part in French colonial campaigns in the China Seas, Japan, and Indochina.

[30] He explored the Darién Province, and contributed to the development of the Panama Canal by proposing its route.