Louise Michel - Lettre autographe signée pour dénoncer le dénigrement d'un journal belge à son égard - 1889

Very beautiful letter from Louise Michel, with the restrained and determined character that marks her in her defense.
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"Friends warn me through a Belgian newspaper and accuse me of my personal affairs in a way that forces me to reply, since it is not really about me at all.
I am trying to make this reply as tactful as possible.
I will therefore say only this: for the past two years, going to three or four meetings every day, I have not been able to work sufficiently; friends have felt obliged to help me — especially those mentioned in the article in question [Clemenceau, Rochefort?] — and who had already taken care of my mother during my prison sentence, I ADD NOTHING."

(signed) LOUISE MICHEL
June 1, 1889

(The Belgian newspaper that particularly denigrated Louise Michel during the centennial of the French Revolution is L’Indépendance belge.)

(To note: the recipient’s header has been removed previously.)
(Origin Roumet)
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Louise Michel (1830 - 1905) schoolteacher, writer, anarchist activist and one of the major figures of the Paris Commune.
In 1889, she is therefore still in Paris — a great year for her, the Paris Workers’ International Socialist Congress (July 1889), the seedbed of the dissolved First International, of which she was a figure. She then gives numerous lectures in France and Belgium.
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