Louise MICHEL and her hopes for a new world.

Louise MICHEL (1830.1905)

Autograph letter signed to comrade Alexandre Roy.  

Four pages in-12°. Co-written with her friend Charlotte Vauvelle.

London, August 19 [1901]

« So it was while thinking about our idea for the new world that I passionately devoured the book. »

Co-written letter about the historical novel Quo vadis by the Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz, inspiring Louise Michel with all the hopes of a new world.

Charlotte Vauvelle begins this letter by affirming that she really liked Quo Vadis , which she did not find at all “ bondieusard ”, then giving news of the former communard and anarchist activist Constant Martin, who was struck by paralysis. Louise Michel continues the missive:

“Now Quo Vadis. As we had read it a few months ago and I had brought it home to eagerly finish it, it had gripped me although the English translation was said to be the worst. But I hadn't just thought about the sentences, I read the ideas , I experienced these meetings in prison between fanatics of an idea, these sudden conversions I saw, I see them. So it was while thinking about our idea for the new world that I passionately devoured the book. So I was happy to reread it cover to cover. Cold he didn't make the same impression on me but he made me another one there are marvelous details about ancient Rome and the true following the story. But the endless grandeur of the early days of Christianity, where it was not walled in by dogmas like a bastille, was no longer so high at last and through everything it is superb. »