Émile Hureau

Émile Hureau was a French author born in 1877. Records from the Bibliothèque nationale de France identify him with the dates 1877–1922, and his surviving books show a strong interest in unusual intellectual questions, especially De la télépathie: étude sur la transmission de la pensée.

Specialist reference sources on French anarchism describe him as an individualist anarchist who contributed before the First World War to papers including L’Anarchie and the first series of L’Idée Libre. Those same sources also connect him with writing on international language reform, including Le Problème de la langue internationale, sa solution.

Although only a small amount of biographical detail is easy to confirm, the outline is striking: Hureau appears as a militant, pamphleteer, and essayist whose interests ranged from politics to telepathy. That mix gives his work a distinctive period feel, rooted in the debates and experiments of early twentieth-century France.