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{{Short description|French anarchist writer (1854–1939)}}
[[Image:Jean Grave.png|thumb|Jean Grave]]
'''Jean Grave''' ({{IPA-|fr|gʁav|lang}}; October 16, 1854, [[Le Breuil-sur-Couze]] – December 8, 1939, [[Vienne-en-Val]]) was an important activist in the [[Anarchism in France|French anarchist]] and the international [[anarchist communism]] movements. He was the editor of three major anarchist periodicals, ''[[Le Révolté]]'', ''[[La Révolte]]'' and ''{{ill|Les Temps nouveaux (newspaper)|lt=Les Temps Nouveaux|fr|Les Temps nouveaux (journal)}}'', and wrote dozens of pamphlets and a number of important anarchist books.<ref name=B/>
 
Grave supported anarchism in the late 1870s, when it first began to emerge as a distinct movement. He was initially a supporter of [[Jules Guesde]]'s Marxist-inspired philosophy. He attended political meetings in [[Paris]] before moving in 1883 to [[Geneva]] where he was invited by [[Peter Kropotkin]] and [[Elisée Reclus]] to be the editor of ''Le Révolté'', which was renamed ''La Révolte'' when it moved to Paris in 1886. He edited ''La Révolte'' from 1887 to 1894.<ref name=B>{{cite journal|last1=Bantman|first1=Constance|title=Jean Grave and French Anarchism: A Relational Approach (1870s–1914)|journal=International Review of Social History|volume=62|issue=033|year=2017|pages=451–477|issn=0020-8590|doi=10.1017/S0020859017000347|doi-access=free}}</ref>
 
In 1893 Grave wrote ''[[La société mourante et l'anarchie]]'',<ref name=B/> prefaced by [[Octave Mirbeau]], for which he was sentenced to two years in prison. Mirbeau, like [[Élisée Reclus]], [[Paul Adam (French novelist)|Paul Adam]], and [[Bernard Lazare]] had testified on Grave's behalf, but to no avail. The trial only popularised the book, which was rapidly translated into German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Yiddish. An English translation by [[Voltairine De Cleyre]] appeared in 1899.