Louise MICHEL – Revolutionary autograph manuscript.
"It is the revolution they are calling for through their stupidity and infamy."
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"It is the revolution they are calling for through their stupidity and infamy."
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Louise MICHEL (1830.1905)
Autograph manuscript.
Half a page in-8° on lilac paper. No place or date.
On the back of a depiction of the Beast of Gévaudan.
"The people will overthrow all the traitors."
A remarkable manuscript by Louise Michel testifying to her political commitment.
“Why demonstrate against the Senate? That would only play into the hands of others who are just as Orleanist as the Senate. There aren’t perhaps twenty deputies who will resist the coup the Orléans are preparing. The people will overthrow all the traitors. A demonstration is nothing— it’s the revolution they’re calling for through their stupidity and infamy.”
The Beast of Gévaudan, depicted on the front of the document, appears transparently beneath the lines of Louise Michel, giving this committed manuscript a ferocious aspect.