Claude Guillon

Guillon was born in Paris on 17 September 1952 to an upper-middle-class family. His parents were dental surgeons in the public sector and his grandfather, also named Claude, was a deputy of the National Assembly from 1928 to 1932. He studied at the Lycée de Meudon and graduated in 1970. He was a member of the Revolutionary Anarchist Organization in a small chapter in Meudon. A conscientious objector, he refused his conscription, both military and civil. In 1977, he became a freelance objector for Libération and was an activist within the "sexual revolution" within the French movement for family planning. In 1982, he published Suicide, mode d'emploi.