Octavio Alberola and Ariane Gransac in Ariane's studio (1970)

Octavio Alberola and Ariane Gransac in Ariane's studio (1970)

Stuart Christie (2011): 'Rue Léon-Jouhaux, 1970: studio apartment of Ariane Gransac and her partner Octavio Alberola (with yours truly in the mirror). Octavio, coordinator of the clandestine Defensa Interior (D.I.) betwen 1962 and 1964 when it was disowned and sabotaged by the exiled CNT leadership of Germinal Esgleas and Vicente Llansola (subsequently morphing into the First of May Group), was considered at the time to be Franco's Public Eenemy No.1. His dad, José Alberola, a highly regarded anarchist writer and teacher, was murdered by four men in his Mexico City flat on 1 May 1967, the anniversary of the kidnapping in Rome of Mgr Marcos Ussia, Franco's ecclesiastical envoy to the Vatican.'

1970