What is Elisée Reclus?
{{Infobox Person | name = Élisée Reclus | image = EliseeReclusNadar.jpg | image_size = 200px | caption = | birth_date = March 15, 1830 | birth_place = [[Ste Foy la Grande, France]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1905|07|04|1830|03|15}} | death_place = [[Torhout, Belgium]] | occupation = Geographer, Anarchist Revolutionary, and Writer. }} '''Élisée Reclus''' (March 15, 1830–July 4, 1905), also known as '''Jean Jacques Élisée Reclus''', was a [[France|French]] [[geographer]] and [[anarchist]]. ==Biography== He was born at [[Sainte-Foy-la-Grande]] ([[Gironde]]). He was the second son of a [[Protestant]] priest, who had a family of fourteen children. His education, begun in Rhenish Prussia, was continued in the Protestant college of [[Montauban]], and completed at the university of [[Berlin]], where he followed a long course of geography under [[Karl Ritter]]. After 1851, he spent the next six years (1852–1857) visiting the [[Great Britain|British Isles]], the [[United States]], [[Central America]], and [[Colombia]]. On his return to [[Paris]] he contributed to the ''[[Revue des deux mondes]]'', the ''Tour du monde'' and other papers, with a large number of articles about [[geography]]. In 1867–1868 he published ''La Terre; description des phénomènes de la vie du globe'', in two volumes.During the 1870 [[siege of Paris]], he was in the National Guard, while as a member of the [[Association Nationale des Travailleurs]] he published in the ''Cri du Peuple'' an article against the government of [[Versailles]] in support of the [[Paris Commune]] of 1871.Continuing to serve in the National Guard, now in open revolt, he was taken prisoner on April 5. On November 16, he was sentenced to transportation for life; but, after changed to a ban as an exile. Reclus also visited [[Italy]], and [[Switzerland]], where he wrote many articles about geography. In 1882 Reclus initiated the [[Anti-Marriage Movement]]. After this was followed by government prosecutions, instituted in the High Court of [[Lyon]], against the [[anar