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Wikis > Louise Michel

Louise Michel (1830-1905) was a French anarchist, school teacher and medical worker. She was one of the major revolutionary figures of the Parisian “Commune”.

Table of Contents

  • 1 Origins
  • 2 Militancy
  • 3 Social legacy
  • 4 Feminism
  • 5 Bibliography
    • 5.1 Posthumous
  • 6 References
  • 7 See Also

Origins

Louise Michel was born in France at the Château of Vroncourt (Haute-Marne) on 29 May 1830, the daughter of a serving-maid, Marianne Michel, and the son of the châtelain, Etienne Charles Demahis.

Militancy

During the Parisian Commune, Louise Michel is very active. She plays a major role as a propagandist, a doctor and a fighter.

Social legacy

Feminism

Louise Michel gives a specific importance to the role of women in her writings for the workers’ cause. She describe the worker female as the most exploited kind.

She is also one of the few 19th century women wearing a male outfit, releaving a feminist claim.

Bibliography

  • À travers la vie, poetry, Paris, 1894.
  • Le Bâtard impérial, by L. Michel and J. Winter, Paris, 1883.
  • Le claque-dents, Paris.
  • La Commune, Paris, 1898.
  • Contes et légendes, Paris, 1884.
  • Les Crimes de l’époque, nouvelles inédites, Paris, 1888.
  • Défense de Louise Michel, Bordeaux, 1883.
  • L’Ère nouvelle, pensée dernière, souvenirs de Calédonie (prisoners’ songs), Paris, 1887
  • La Fille du peuple par L. Michel et A. Grippa, Paris (1883) Fleurs et ronces, poetry, Paris,
  • Le Gars Yvon, légende bretonne, Paris, 1882.
  • Lectures encyclopédiques par cycles attractifs, Paris, 1888.
  • Ligue internationale des femmes révolutionnaires, Appel à une réunion. Signed “Louise Michel”, Paris, 1882.
  • Le livre du jour de l’an : historiettes, contes et légendes pour les enfants, Paris, 1872.
  • Lueurs dans l’ombre. Plus d’idiots, plus de fous. L’âme intelligente. L’idée libre. L’esprit lucide de la terre à Dieu… Paris, 1861.
  • Manifeste et proclamation de Louise Michel aux citoyennes de Paris, Signed “Louise Maboul”, Paris, 1883.
    Mémoires, Paris, 1886, t. 1.
  • Les Méprises, grand roman de mœurs parisiennes, par Louise Michel et Jean Guêtré, Paris, 1882.
  • Les Microbes humains, Paris, 1886.
  • La Misère by Louise Michel, 2nd part, and Jean Guêtré 1st part, Paris, 1882.
  • Le Monde nouveau, Paris, 1888

Posthumous

  • Vol. I. Avant la Commune. Preface by Laurent Tailhade, Alfortville, 1905.
  • Les Paysans by Louise Michel et Émile Gautier, Paris, Incomplete.
  • Prise de possession, Saint-Denis, 1890.
  • Le Rêve (in a work by Constant Martin), Paris, 1898.
  • Légendes et chants de gestes canaques. Présentation. Gérard Oberlé. Edition 1900. 1988.
  • Je vous écris de ma nuit, correspondance générale, 1850-1904, edition established by Xavière Gauthier, Édition de Paris-Max Chaleil, 1999.

References

  • Movie “Louise Michel, la rebelle”, 2010, directed by S. Anspach (France)
  • Jean Maitron, Dictionnaire biographique du Mouvement ouvrier français, Les Éditions de l’Atelier, 1997, « Louise Michel » article
  • Xavière Gauthier, “Louise Michel. Féministe et révolutionnaire  :« Révolution, mes amours  ! »”, L’Humanité, March 5, 2010

See Also

  • Feminism

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