DEATH OF LOUISE MICHEL

Evening Star, Issue 12398, 11 January 1905, Page 6

DEATH OF LOUISE MICHEL

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

LONDON, January 10. (Received January 11, at 9.5 a.m.)

Louise Michel is dead; aged seventy-four vears.

[Louise Michel was bam in France, and followed the calling of a teacher in the public schools. She was beautiful, refined, and intensely sympathetic. Her views displeased her parents, bat she - continued her "mission," through the Press and at public meetings, of protest against tyranny and autocracy. She was a leader of the Revolutianary Commune in Paris in'the dark days that followed the overthrow of " Napoleon the Little" and the annihilation of the French armies. She was taken prisoner, transported for life, but released in 1880. Her trials, however, were not over. Her rabidity and virulence against the existing order of society caused her to be imprisoned in 1883 and 1886. Age did not sweeten her, though back of all her excesses and the source of all her protests was a genuine kwe of tho toiling masses, a hatred of corruption and tyranny, and a desire to mitigate the glaring inequalities of society. Tho world has been kd to regard her with shocked horror, but the world in this relation merely Mowed the dictates of smug respectability. The last years of her life were spent in that secure haven for all deposed monarchs, presidents, patriots, and Anarchists'—England. She published many works, their inspiration being found in the cause to which she had devoted her life.]