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Louise Michel, also known by her nickname of Enjolras, was a French teacher, writer, poet, philosopher, Communard, and anarchist. A major figure in the Paris Commune, where she was militarily and politically involved and was one of the most famous representatives of the role played by women in the Paris Commune, she was also a feminist figure and became one of the key personalities of anarchism du…
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culture · French anarchist (1830–1905) · primary school teacher · poet · pedagogue · woman of letters · journalist · communard · anarchist · politician · writer · social activist · also Louise Michel, Clémence-Louise Michel, Clemence-Louise Michel, Michel
Born 29 May 1830 · Died 9 January 1905 · Q216092
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They keep talking to us about liberty: There is the liberty of speech with five years of prison at the end. In England, the meeting would have taken place; in France, they have not even made a legal admonition in order to let the crowd retreat, which would have left without resistance. People are dying from hunger, and they do not even have the right to say that they are dying from hunger.
The Tragedy of the Political Exiles
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“They keep talking to us about liberty: There is the liberty of speech with five years of prison at the end. In England, the meeting would have taken place; in France, they have not even made a legal admonition in order to let the crowd retreat, which would have left without resistance. People are dying from hunger, and they do not even have the right to say that they are dying from hunger.”
Street artist Banksy was credited for sending a rescue ship in the Mediterranean Sea and naming it after Michel
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Libcom: A Visit to Louise Michel - Paul Lafargue
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The Square Louise-Michel in Montmartre was renamed after her
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The Collège Louise-Michel was opened in the 10th arrondissement
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“The Tragedy of the Political Exiles”
Died 1905-01-09.
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Career landmark: funeral.
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Michel went on a conference tour through French Algeria
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“I considered the things, events and people of the past. I thought about the behaviour of our friends of the Commune: they were scrupulous, so afraid of exceeding their authority, that they never threw their full energies into anything but the loss of their own lives. I quickly came to the conclusion that good men in power are incompetent, just as bad men are evil, and therefore it is impossible for liberty ever to be associated with any form of power whatsoever.”
“Anarchy will not begin the eternal miseries anew. Humanity in its fight of despair will cling to it in order to emerge from the abyss.”
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Sébastien Faure and Michel founded the French anarchist periodical Le Libertaire (The Libertarian), now called Le Monde Libertaire (Libertarian World)
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The school was closed, when explosives were found in the basement
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Reasoned that "the attractive power of progress will demonstrate itself all the more as daily bread will be assured, and a few hours of work which will have become attractive and voluntary will be enough to produce m
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“It is indeed time that this old world die since no one is safe any longer... We can no longer live like our Stone Age ancestors, nor as in the past century, since the series of inventions, since the discoveries of science have brought the certainty that all production will increase a hundredfold when these innovations will be used for the general good, instead of letting just a handful of vultures help themselves in order to starve the rest.”
At the same time as Kropotkin and other prominent anarchists
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For leading a group of unemployed workers, she attacked shortcomings in the implementation of the French republican constitution, saying:
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Staged her first anarchist play Nadine
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Amnesty was granted to those who had participated in the Paris Commune
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Thanks to the amnesty for the Communards, and, being very popular, participated in numerous demonstrations and meetings in favor of the working class
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The monarchist-dominated National Assembly passed a constitution that established a republican government with an upper and lower house of parliament
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Following twenty months in prison, Michel was loaded onto the ship Virginie, to be deported to New Caledonia, where four months later she arrived
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Actively participated in the events of the Paris Commune, both on the front line and in support
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The French Third Republic was proclaimed in Paris
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The feminist group Société pour la Revendication des Droits Civils de la Femme (Society for the Demand of Civil Rights for Women) was announced by André Léo
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Michel opened a school in Paris which became known for its modern and progressive methods
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Provocatively wrote a new Marseillaise, the call to arms during the French Revolution
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Born 1830-05-29.
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A short-lived revolt resulted in a constitutional monarchy being established
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I considered the things, events and people of the past. I thought about the behaviour of our friends of the Commune: they were scrupulous, so afraid of exceeding their authority, that they never threw their full energies into anything but the loss of their own lives. I quickly came to the conclusion that good men in power are incompetent, just as bad men are evil, and therefore it is impossible for liberty ever to be associated with any form of power whatsoever.
It is indeed time that this old world die since no one is safe any longer... We can no longer live like our Stone Age ancestors, nor as in the past century, since the series of inventions, since the discoveries of science have brought the certainty that all production will increase a hundredfold when these innovations will be used for the general good, instead of letting just a handful of vultures help themselves in order to starve the rest.
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