Chronicle “Very pleased of letters”
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Each individual month, the Countrywide Library of France highlights a work by a author, for no cost download at Gallica. These days, the “Memoirs of a Living Lifeless” (1909) of the Victorine Brocher commune (1839-1921).
Regards? No, the title has previously been taken by friend Louise (Michel). “Reminiscences of the Commune”? There are by now so a lot of. So go for Recollections of an undead (1909), his 1st ebook. It will be the past. Signed Victorine B. A modest tribute to the nameless members of the Municipality of 1871 …
Lifeless but oh so alive
1st it was Victorine M. “Malenfant”. Humorous name, not fortunate. His mother has lost at minimum a few other small children, including twins. Named Charles Martel and Edouard Napoléon, a real provocation: Father is a shoemaker by militant decision and a Republican by ideal.
Victorine (born in Paris in 1839), the only surviving daughter, follows her father’s forty-eighth almost everywhere, to secret conferences, in Orleans, in Paris. And mother on the barricades. When we master that her father is on the ban lists and that the family members house is becoming searched, Victorine passes out and gets to be silent and amnesiac from …
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