March 15, 2025
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Claude Rétat, « From Michelet to Michel (Louise) : From a romantic sea to an anarchist sea? », HALSHS : archive ouverte en Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société, ID : 10.4000/13hjk
This article analyses the poetical, existential and political dimension of the sea in the work of Louise Michel, writer and anarchist. Her work reveals an oceanic-revolutionary feeling, which places her in line with the romanticism of Jules Michelet, both an historian and a naturalist. The myth of Atlantis is intensely reinvested in her poems, novels and encyclopaedic prose. The wildest nature and the great modern metropolises communicate and converge : the ocean and the crowds of people concentrated in the cities are driven by the same deep, unpredictable, roaring and creative force, they are the place where geological and political storms and revolutions are born. Thus, Louise Michel expressed a cosmogonic vision of the transformations of nature, society and humanity.