L'Étendard révolutionnaire

L'Étendard révolutionnaire (English: 'The Revolutionary Standard') was an anarchist newspaper published in Lyon between July and October 1882. It succeeded Le Droit social, which had been interrupted one week before it began publishing, and with it, was one of the first anarchist publications in France after Serraux's La Révolution sociale (1880). It was succeeded by La Lutte the next year.

The newspaper brought together a number of prominent figures of anarchism in Lyon during this period, such as Toussaint Bordat and Antoine Cyvoct, who was one of its managers. It maintained links with the Black Band, which Bordat visited during the Montceau-les-Mines troubles and which published various statements in the newspaper including one where the group was one of the first to use the black flag as an anarchist symbol.

Following the Assommoir bombing in October 1882, publication ceased—partially because Cyvoct was on trial for the attack and because a major crackdown on anarchists was taking place in France, culminating in the Trial of the 66 in January 1883. Cyvoct was acquitted of the bombing but sentenced to death for allegedly writing an article that provoked it.

It belongs to the first period of the Lyon anarchist press, featuring a series of closely related newspapers that succeeded one another in the face of government bans, including Le Droit social, L'Étendard révolutionnaire, La Lutte, Le Drapeau noir, L'Émeute, Le Défi, L'Hydre anarchiste, L'Alarme, and Le Droit anarchique.