Communard

This group of men and women, all tolerably intelligent and thoughtful looking, are so-called enemies of society--Nihilists, Anarchists, Communards, members of the International,and so on.

In their successful May 1871 assault on the capital, troops summarily shot anyone they suspected of being a Communard, and the number of their victims certainly was far above the seventeen thousand for whom the municipal government paid burial expenses.

Louise Michel is probably best known for her role as a Communard, that is, as a participant and supporter of the Paris Commune of 1871, which was one response to the Social Question.

Auguste-Jean-Marie Vermorel, a socialist journalist, was gravely wounded on the boulevard during the "Semaine Sanglante," that "bloody week" that ended the Communard dream.

In some respects, it's no exaggeration to say that this study forms a kind of grand companion to the author's earlier, path-breaking works on Rimbaud's literary politics (e.g., Rimbaud et la menagerie imperiale [1991], Strategics de Rimbaud [2004]) which had already accomplished so much in the realm of convincing and attuning readers and scholars on both sides of the Atlantic to the politically and esthetically subversive (and specifically Communard) dimensions of Rimbaud's poetic and epistolary oeuvre.

Gavin Bowd, Le Dernier communard: Adrien Lejeune, Paris L'Harmattan, 2007, ISBN 9782296029743, 190 pp

Indeed, Kuhlmann quotes one communard as wondering why behavioral psychology attracts so many "control freaks" (75).

She also condemns the Communard Louise Michel for failing to extricate herself from a western colonialist perspective in her judgments of cannibalism.

Goncourt's elation is that Communard "artistes" have transformed the Hotel de Ville into an exotic palace.

The author relies on archival sources, and contemporaneous accounts from individuals on both sides of the struggle, including Archbishop Georges Darboy, feminist revolutionary Louise Michel, Painter Gustave Courbet, Communard Raoul Rigault, and Albert Hans.

There are Communard remixes of Never Can Say Goodbye, You Are My World '87, Disenchanted and Don't Leave Me This Way, plus different versions of the Jimmy Somerville hits Hurts So Good, Comment Te Dire Adieu, Heartbeat and You Make Me Feel Mighty Real.