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Described by one authority as "the son and grandson of militant socialists", Georges Louis Albert Fontenis was born into a working-class family in [[Paris]] and grew up in the city's suburbs. As a young teenager he devoured his father's revolutionary socialist and trades union journals and newspapers and other TrotskyiteTrotskyist and pacifist literature. He became involved with the [[:fr:Mouvement libertaire|libertarian movement]] during the strikes of June 1936. When he was 17 he joined the Anarchist Union, "discovered" [[Mikhail Bakunin|Bakunin]] and [[Peter Kropotkin|Kropotkin]], and started selling [[Le Libertaire]] on street corners.<ref name=GFselonAL/>