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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818585903321

Autore

Michel Louise <1830-1905.>

Titolo

The Red Virgin : the memoirs of Louise Michel / / edited and translated by Bullitt Lowry and Elizabeth Ellington Gunter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University, AL, : University of Alabama Press, c1981

ISBN

0-8173-8094-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 220 pages) : illustrations, maps, portrait

Altri autori (Persone)

LowryBullitt <1936->

GunterElizabeth Ellington <1942->

Disciplina

944.081/2/0924

944.081/2/0924 B

944.08120924B

Soggetti

Revolutionaries - France

Political prisoners - France

Paris (France) History Commune, 1871 Sources

New Caledonia Description and travel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translation of Memoires de Louise Michel, ecrits par elle-meme.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Translators' Introduction; 1. Introduction; 2. Vroncourt; 3. The End of Childhood; 4. The Making of a Revolutionary; 5. Schoolmistress in the Haute-Marne; 6. Schoolmistress in Paris; 7. The Decaying Empire; 8. The Siege of Paris; 9. The Commune of Paris; 10. After the Commune; 11. The Trial of 1871; 12. Voyage to Exile; 13. Numbo, New Caledonia; 14. The Bay of the West; 15. Noumea and the Return; 16. Speeches and Journalism, November 1880-January 1882; 17. The Death of Marie Ferre; 18. Women's Rights; 19. Speeches Abroad, 1882-1883; 20. Speeches in France, 1882-1883

21. The Trial of 1883 22. Prison; 23. My Mother's Death; 24. Final Thoughts; Epilogue; Bibliography; Translators' Note; Appendix I. Chapter List Showing Source in Original Text; Appendix II. Table of Poems in Original Text; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Louise Michel was born illegitimate in 1830 and became a schoolmistress in Paris. She was involved in radical activities during the twilight of France's Second Empire, and during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the siege of Paris. She was a leading member of the



revolutionary groups controlling Montmarte. Michel emerged as one of the leaders of the insurrection during the Paris Commune of March-May 1871; and French anarchists saw her as martyr and saint - The Red Virgin.