Louise Michel, by Marie-Hélène Baylac: red and black. No woman in our country, apart from queens and royal mistresses, has been as talked about as Louise Michel.
She embodies for posterity the fight of the Communards against the Versailles. But, through her very excesses, Louise Michel is above all the victim of the merciless fury desired and theorized by Adolphe Thiers. In the eyes of conservatives and undecideds, the Republic with Thiers shows that it can resist.