Louis Duprat

Louis Duprat, (1857-after 1937), nicknamed Piloux, was a French tailor, wine merchant, syndicalist and anarchist. Close to Émile Pouget, Louise Michel, and his partner, Louise Pioger, he held a significant position within the Belle Époque anarchist movement, writing for several newspapers, organizing numerous actions, and being targeted in the Trial of the Thirty.

Born in the Gers region, Duprat began working as a tailor and moved to Paris, where he integrated into the anarchist movement and associated with other activists, such as Louise Michel and Émile Pouget. A member of many groups, such as The Panther of Batignolles, Duprat contributed to a number of newspapers, raised funds to launch La Vengeance Anarchiste, and became involved with Louise Duval, Clément Duval's wife, in assisting deportees to the penal colonies, such as Vittorio Pini. He generally defended positions similar to Pouget's within the groups he participated in. From 1890, Duprat purchased a wine shop, which quickly became a gathering place for anarchists in France.

He was targeted by the Trial of the Thirty in 1894, sentenced to twenty years of penal colony deportation in absentia while he was in the United Kingdom with Pioger. He then returned to France a few months later when the repression had lessened. Having appealed his conviction, he was acquitted.

His police photograph is part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) collections.