Albert Libertad, a pseudonym for Joseph Albert, was born in Bordeaux in 1875 and died in Paris in 1908. He grew up in an orphanage and began his working life as an accountant. But he soon abandoned that trade to head for the City of Light, where he soon shone as one of the most agile and seductive propagandists of Belle Époque anarchism. He collaborated in different publications and democratic groups, founded his own newspaper, L ’anarchie, and promoted the causeries populaires (popular talks) in which he vigorously defended and propagated anarchist individualism. He was an energetic, provocative, and penetrating speaker and writer and attacked voluntary servitude almost more vigorously than the exploitation of man by man.