Louise Michel

Louise Michel

<p>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".
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<div id="toc"><h2>Table of Contents</h2>
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_origins"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Origins</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_militancy"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Militancy</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_social-legacy"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Social legacy</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_feminism"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Feminism</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_bibliography"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Bibliography</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#w_posthumous"><span class="tocnumber">5.1</span> <span class="toctext">Posthumous</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_references"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_see-also"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">See Also</span></a></li>
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</div><h2 id="w_origins">Origins</h2>
<p>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.
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<h2 id="w_militancy">Militancy</h2>
<p>During the Parisian Commune, Louise Michel is very active. She plays a major role as a propagandist, a doctor and a fighter.
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<h2 id="w_social-legacy">Social legacy</h2>
<h2 id="w_feminism">Feminism</h2>
<p>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.
</p><p>She is also one of the few 19th century women wearing a male outfit, releaving a feminist claim.
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<h1 id="w_bibliography">Bibliography</h1>
<ul><li>À travers la vie, poetry, Paris, 1894.
</li><li>Le Bâtard impérial, by L. Michel and J. Winter, Paris, 1883.
</li><li>Le claque-dents, Paris.
</li><li>La Commune, Paris, 1898.
</li><li>Contes et légendes, Paris, 1884.
</li><li>Les Crimes de l’époque, nouvelles inédites, Paris, 1888.
</li><li>Défense de Louise Michel, Bordeaux, 1883.
</li><li>L’Ère nouvelle, pensée dernière, souvenirs de Calédonie (prisoners’ songs), Paris, 1887
</li><li>La Fille du peuple par L. Michel et A. Grippa, Paris (1883) Fleurs et ronces, poetry, Paris,
</li><li>Le Gars Yvon, légende bretonne, Paris, 1882.
</li><li>Lectures encyclopédiques par cycles attractifs, Paris, 1888.
</li><li>Ligue internationale des femmes révolutionnaires, Appel à une réunion. Signed "Louise Michel", Paris, 1882.
</li><li>Le livre du jour de l’an&nbsp;: historiettes, contes et légendes pour les enfants, Paris, 1872.
</li><li>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.
</li><li>Manifeste et proclamation de Louise Michel aux citoyennes de Paris, Signed "Louise Maboul", Paris, 1883.<br />Mémoires, Paris, 1886, t. 1.
</li><li>Les Méprises, grand roman de mœurs parisiennes, par Louise Michel et Jean Guêtré, Paris, 1882.
</li><li>Les Microbes humains, Paris, 1886.
</li><li>La Misère by Louise Michel, 2nd part, and Jean Guêtré 1st part, Paris, 1882.
</li><li>Le Monde nouveau, Paris, 1888
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<h2 id="w_posthumous">Posthumous</h2>
<ul><li>Vol. I. Avant la Commune. Preface by Laurent Tailhade, Alfortville, 1905.
</li><li>Les Paysans by Louise Michel et Émile Gautier, Paris, Incomplete.
</li><li>Prise de possession, Saint-Denis, 1890.
</li><li>Le Rêve (in a work by Constant Martin), Paris, 1898.
</li><li>Légendes et chants de gestes canaques. Présentation. Gérard Oberlé. Edition 1900. 1988.
</li><li>Je vous écris de ma nuit, correspondance générale, 1850-1904, edition established by Xavière Gauthier, Édition de Paris-Max Chaleil, 1999.
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<h1 id="w_references">References</h1>
<ul><li>Movie "Louise Michel, la rebelle", 2010, directed by S. Anspach (France)
</li><li>Jean Maitron, Dictionnaire biographique du Mouvement ouvrier français, Les Éditions de l’Atelier, 1997, «&nbsp;Louise Michel&nbsp;» article
</li><li>Xavière Gauthier, "Louise Michel. Féministe et révolutionnaire &nbsp;:«&nbsp;Révolution, mes amours &nbsp;!&nbsp;»", L’Humanité, March 5, 2010
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<h1 id="w_see-also">See Also</h1>
<ul><li> "Feminism" </li></ul>
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