Il primo anno e mezzo di Carlo Rosselli a Parigi (agosto 1929-dicembre 1930)

After escaping from Lipari Rosselli arrived in Paris on August 1, 1929 in the company of Lussu, Nitti and Tarchiani. In December of the following year Rosselli, after revising, correcting, and expanding some parts of the manuscript drafted in confinement, givesSocialisme libéral to the presses at the publisher Georges Valois. In the year and a half between the two events, Rosselli organizes the family’s move to the transalpine capital, founds “Justice and Freedom” in criticism of the traditional left-wing parties believing them unfit to fight fascism, plans the movement’s first actions, reasons about its inclusion in the Anti- Fascist Concentration, and weaves a series of relationships with exponents of French politics and culture. In this article we aim to bring out how the first seventeen months of exile are already of absolute relevance in Rosselli’s more complex political-existential story, destined then to end tragically, again on French soil, in June 1937.