# James Guillaume — Memoirs of a Revolutionist character guide

> James Guillaume in Memoirs of a Revolutionist by Peter Kropotkin.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** James, James Guillaume, Guillaume

**First appearance:** 0056-i

## Who they are

Swiss anarchist and historian of the First International.

## Relationships

### [Peter Kropotkin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/characters/peter_kropotkin)

_friendship_

Guillaume was a fellow anarchist and close comrade of Kropotkin in the international revolutionary movement.

### [Peter Kropotkin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/characters/peter_kropotkin)

_friendship_

Guillaume was a fellow anarchist and close comrade of Kropotkin in the international revolutionary movement.

## In the story

### [First Contact with the Jura Federation](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/ix)

Proofreader and coeditor in Neuchâtel; Kropotkin helps him with wrappers, beginning a lasting friendship.

### [The Nature of Revolution and the Influence of Bakunin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/x)

Guillaume edited a small newspaper in the Jura hills that sounded a new note of independent thought in the socialist movement.

### [Part VI: Western Europe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/part-vi-western-europe)

Key figure in the Jura Federation, influences Kropotkin's anarchist ideas.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/i)

Friend in the Jura Federation with whom Kropotkin corresponded; influenced his move to Switzerland.

### [The Jura Federation and the International](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/ii)

Friend of Bakunin, excluded from the International alongside Bakunin and the Jura Federation at the Hague Congress.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/iii)

Editor of the Bulletin of the federation, a teacher by profession, described as a born leader with phenomenal work capacity.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/iv)

Kropotkin visited him at Neuchâtel during his time in Switzerland.

### [The Ghent Congress and the Revival in France](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/v)

Bars Kropotkin from returning to his hotel to prevent his arrest.

### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/vii)

Longtime editor of Jura Federation organ, forced to leave Switzerland.

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