Louise Michel wrote a great number of novels in her lifetime. For all those we have, many more have been lost to time. Louise herself says in her memoirs:
Who could count the songs scattered to the harsh winds of Haute-Marne in my nest at Vroncourt! The verses clinging to hawthorns or the paths along the roads! The forgotten attempts in my classroom desk! And later, ask the winds, the prisons, the sea, the cyclones. Do I even know where all of it has gone?
Some of the manuscripts she mentions having written, though they do not exist today, include The Book of Hermann, The Wisdom of a Fool, Literature in Crochet, The Devilries of Chaumont, Of Woman Through the Ages, The Memoirs of Hanna the Nihilist, The Children’s Encyclopedia, The Book of the Penal Colony; The Conscience and The Book of the Dead.
She goes on to say:
As for the unfinished scenarios and novels started here and there, which I never had the time to finish due to events, I don’t even count them. Among them is The Pillagers, an idea that came to me at the same time as Digeon…
Here are links to those books of Louise Michel which happily remain:
Le Livre du Jour de l’an, Historiettes, Contes et Légendes pour les Enfants
A New Year’s Book: Little Histories, Tales and Legends for Children (1872)
Contes et Légendes
Tales and Legends, with a facsimile preface by Henri Rochefort (1884)
Légendes et Chants de Gestes Canaques
Legends and Songs of the Kanaks (1885)
Les Microbes Humains
The Human Microbes (1886)
L’Ere Nouvelle, Pensée Dernière, Souvenirs de Calédonie
The New Age, Latest Thoughts, Memories of Caledonia (1887)
Lectures Encyclopédiques par Cycles Attractifs
Encyclopaedic Readings by Cycles of Attraction (1888)
Le Monde Nouveau
The New World (1888)
Les Crimes de l’Epoque
Crimes of the Age, new short stories (1888)
Prise de Possession
The Appropriation, publication by the Anarchist group of Saint-Denis (Libertarian Youth), Saint Denis (1890)
La Chasse aux Loups
The Wolf Chase (1891)
Oeuvres Posthumes
Posthumous Works, Volume 1 “Before the Commune”, preface by Laurent Tailhade (1905)
Le Claque-Dents
The Teeth Clackers (undated)
Collaborations
La Misère
Misery, in collaboration with Jean Guétré
*Note: Louise states that she only wrote from the Toulon chapter.
Les Méprisées
The Despised Ones, a novel of Parisian customs and mores, in collaboration with Jean Guétré
*Note: Louise claims that she wrote ‘not one line’ of this, but kept her name on it to avoid disputes.
Le Bâtard Impérial
The Imperial Bastard, in collaboration with Jean Winter (1883)
Les Paysans
The Peasants, in collaboration with Emile Gautier
