Written by Tomás Ibáñez. Via KSL.
Ariane Gransac passed away in Perpignan on Sunday 5 April 2026, at the age of 84: her funeral is to take place at Perpignan crematorium on 15 April.
Rather than succumb to sadness at her leaving, I would prefer to remember her joie de vivre back when I first met her some sixty years ago around 1966, following her brave participation in the unforgettable abduction in Rome of Franco’s ambassador to the Vatican.
Ariane was the daughter of a top manager in the perfume industry and could easily have settled for the privileges offered by financial comfort, but that did not sit well with her rebellious temperament. She quickly began hanging out in anarchist circles in Paris, becoming a member of the French Anarchist Federation’s Emile-Henry Group and, being an amateur painter, she frequented cultural circles with libertarian leanings. Continue reading “Ariane Gransac is dead: a life that was intense, rebellious and anarchist”