LouiseMichel.com strives to be a living archive of all resources on Louise Michel available online.
Some of my favourite museums and websites are listed below:
Louise Michel Resources in French
Louise Michel Resources in English
Books
In writing my book The Chaos, about Louise Michel in the Paris Commune, I read the following books, which I recommend as giving great insight into Louise, the Commune, the role of women, revolution, and a feeling for the time.
Louise Michel, by Edith Thomas
The Red Virgin: Memoirs of Louise Michel / Mémoires de Louise Michel, écrits par elle-même
Unruly Women of Paris, by Gay Gullickson
Paris Babylon, by Rupert Christiansen
The Women Incendiaries, by Edith Thomas
Eternity by the Stars, by Louis-Auguste Blanqui / L’éternité par les astres par Louis-Auguste Blanqui
Je vous écris de ma nuit: correspondance générale de Louise Michel, 1850-1904, compiled by Xavière Gauthier
Memories of a Living Dead, by Victorine Brocher / Souvenirs d’une morte vivante, par Victorine Brocher
Voices of the Paris Commune, by Mitchel Abidor
The Paris Commune, by Carolyn J. Eichner
Women at Work in Pre-Industrial France, by Daryl M. Hafter
The Paradise of Association – Political Culture and Popular Organisations in the Paris Commune of 1871, by Martin Phillip Johnson
The Woman Question in France, 1400-1870, by Karen M. Offen
The Politics of Women’s Work – The Paris Garment Trades, 1750-1915, by Judith G. Coffin
The Paris Commune of 1871, by Frank Jellinet
The Paris Commune: A Revolution in Democracy, by Donny Gluckstein
The Culture of War – Literature of the Siege of Paris 1870-1871, by Colin Foss
The Blanqui Reader, by Louis-Auguste Blanqui, Peter Hallward and Philippe le Goff
The Adventures of My Life Parts 1 and 2, by Henri Rochefort
Communal Luxury, by Kristin Ross
History of the Commune of 1871, by Lissagaray
Commune Insurgent: Blanqui’s Politics of Revolution, by Doug Greene
La Commune vécue : 18 mars – 28 mai 1871, par Gaston da Costa
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