The rebel France could not crush: Paul Mason on his play about the passion of Louise Michel by Paul Mason

When the Paris Commune fell, she was deported to a remote, mosquito-ridden island in the South Pacific " where she found new freedom fighters to support. Our writer retraces her steps and strugglesIt took Louise Michel four months to get to New Caledonia, in a cage below the deck of a French frigate. It took me just 27 hours by air, but it still felt like arriving on a different planet. One thousand miles east of Bri…

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