Louise Michel
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
She was called The Red Virgin of Montmartre — a schoolteacher turned revolutionary who stood at the very heart of the Paris Commune of 1871, and whose defiant cry before a military tribunal became one of the most electrifying moments in the history of radical politics. Edith Thomas's Louise Michel is a magisterial biographical portrait of this indomitable French anarchist, tracing her extraordinary journey from an illegitimate childhood in rural France to the barricades of Paris and the brutal exile of New Caledonia, where she continued to agitate, teach, and inspire even under the boot of imperial France. Thomas, herself a distinguished French historian and novelist, brings formidable scholarly rigour and deep narrative empathy to her subject, presenting Michel not merely as a political icon but as a fully realised human being — poet, educator, feminist, and tireless champion of the dispossessed. Translated into English by Penelope Williams and published by the radical Montreal imprint Black Rose Books, this work stands as an essential document of left-wing history and feminist biography. Readers who think they know the story of nineteenth-century French radicalism will find that Louise Michel's life contains depths and contradictions that continue to astonish and provoke.
Author: Edith Thomas
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
She was called The Red Virgin of Montmartre — a schoolteacher turned revolutionary who stood at the very heart of the Paris Commune of 1871, and whose defiant cry before a military tribunal became one of the most electrifying moments in the history of radical politics. Edith Thomas's Louise Michel is a magisterial biographical portrait of this indomitable French anarchist, tracing her extraordinary journey from an illegitimate childhood in rural France to the barricades of Paris and the brutal exile of New Caledonia, where she continued to agitate, teach, and inspire even under the boot of imperial France. Thomas, herself a distinguished French historian and novelist, brings formidable scholarly rigour and deep narrative empathy to her subject, presenting Michel not merely as a political icon but as a fully realised human being — poet, educator, feminist, and tireless champion of the dispossessed. Translated into English by Penelope Williams and published by the radical Montreal imprint Black Rose Books, this work stands as an essential document of left-wing history and feminist biography. Readers who think they know the story of nineteenth-century French radicalism will find that Louise Michel's life contains depths and contradictions that continue to astonish and provoke.