The Red Virgin and the vision of utopia

"Set against the backdrop of violence and state repression in a turbulent period of French history, The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia chronicles the incredible and outrageous life of Louise Michel, the revolutionary feminist dubbed 'The Red Virgin of Montmarte.' Louise was an extraordinary woman ... a utopian dreamer, notorious anarchist, teacher, orator, and poet, she was decades ahead of her time. Always a radical, she fought on the barricades defending the short-lived Paris Commune of 1871 against the reactionary regime that massacred thousands of French citizens after the Commune's defeat. Deported to a penal colony on the other side of the world, she took up the cause of the indigenous population against French colonial repression."--Page 4 of cover.… (more)