Louise Michel

Louise Michel was born in 1830 at the château of Vroncourt, in Haute-Marne. A schoolteacher, she opened schools in Haute-Marne and then in Paris, and in 1871 took part in the Commune, on the Montmartre vigilance committee and in the ranks of the National Guard. Sentenced to deportation, she spent seven years in New Caledonia, learned a Kanak language, taught adult Kanak and sided with them during the revolt of 1878. Returning in 1880 under the amnesty, she became a figure of anarchism and died in Marseille in 1905.

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