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Louise Michel / edited by Nic Maclellan.
LIBRA DC342.8.M64 L32 2004
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Rebel lives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Michel, Louise, 1830-1905.
- Michel, Louise.
- Revolutionaries--France--Biography.
- Revolutionaries.
- France.
- Political prisoners--France--Biography.
- Political prisoners.
- Paris (France)--History--Commune, 1871.
- Paris (France).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 118 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Melbourne ; New York : Ocean Press ; [St. Paul, MN] : [Distributed by] Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, 2004.
- Summary:
- Louise Michel was the incendiary French leader of the 1871 Paris Commune. An anarchist and an irrepressible rebel, she spent much of her life on the run from police, in jail, or in danger of being locked away in mental asylums, as was the fate of so many feisty or defiant women. Known as "The Red Virgin," Louise was a great character from one of the greatest popular rebellions in history.
- Here is Michel's own story, along with commentaries about her by Emma Goldman, Bertolt Brecht, Sheila Rowbotham, Howard Zinn, and her contemporaries Victor Hugo and Karl Marx. This is the third woman in the "Rebel Lives" series.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Biography of Louise Michel 1
- Tribute to Louise Michel from Victor Hugo 24
- Chapter 1 Early Life
- Louise Michel: Sources of rebellion 28
- Louise Michel: Poem 31
- Louise Michel: Letter to Victor Hugo 31
- Chapter 2 Seizing the Guns
- Louise Michel: Seizing the guns 34
- Louise Michel: Open letter defending the seizing of the guns at Montmartre 36
- Bertolt Brecht: The Days of the Commune 37
- Chapter 3 Paris Enraged
- Friedrich Engels: History of the Commune 45
- Louise Michel: Life during the Commune 51
- Louise Michel: Letter to the Mayor of Montmartre 57
- Louise Michel: Letter to the Editors of La Sociale newspaper 58
- Chapter 4 When the Women Decide They Have Had Enough
- Louise Michel: On women's rights 60
- A call to the women citizens of Paris 62
- Request for organizational assistance from the Commune 64
- Elisabeth Dmitrieff: Letter to the Commune 66
- Chapter 5 The First Dress Rehearsal in World History
- Karl Marx 70
- Friedrich Engels 71
- Mikhail Bakunin 73
- William Morris 75
- Peter Kropotkin 76
- V.I. Lenin 78
- Howard Zinn 80
- Paul Foot 82
- Sheila Rowbotham 84
- Chapter 6 "The Internationale"
- V.I. Lenin: The workers' anthem 92
- Chapter 7 Exile in New Caledonia
- Louise Michel: The Kanaks were seeking the same liberty... 94
- Louise Michel: Art for all! Bread for all! Science for all! 96
- Louise Michel: Letter protesting removal from Numbo camp 98
- Chapter 8 Authority Vested in One Person is a Crime
- Louise Michel: Statement to the military tribunal, 1871 100
- Report of Louise Michel's trial for insulting police, 1882 102
- Telegram to organizers of the Les Invalides protest 104
- Louise Michel: Les Invalides Trial, 1883 105
- Letter to the Comissioner of Police 107
- Chapter 9 Emma and Louise
- Emma Goldman: There was spirit and youth in her eyes 109
- Emma Goldman: Louise Michel was a complete woman 112
- On the Paris Commune 117.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [116]-118).
- ISBN:
- 1876175761
- OCLC:
- 56330367
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