The Paris Commune: an intellectual and literary proliferation
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Barricade on boulevard de Ménilmontant during the outbreak of the Paris Commune, March 18, 1871. © AFP - ANONYMOUS
By: Chantal Lorho Follow
31 min
Between March 18 and May 28, 1871, the Parisian people rose up following the French defeat in the Franco-German war and refused to recognize the new government elected by universal suffrage.
Publicity
Then begins an insurrectionary period which will awaken a population, until then invisible.
This period will also give birth to songs, poems, and novels.
Guest: Alice de Charentenay
, doctor of literature, co-author of the
Municipality of writers
,
(Flammarion editions).
Pierre Rossignol, former president of the
André Léo
association
, co-director of the publication
Les vies d'André Léo
published by Presses Universitaires de Rennes, answers
Cécile Lavolot's
questions
.
Who was André Léo?
Her name was Victoire Léodile Bera.
She also took part in the events of the Commune.
Writer, journalist, she is also at the origin of political writings such as
A scandalous marriage
or
La femme et les mœurs
which made her one of the first figures of feminism.
Yet her name was completely obscured until the feminist revolution of the 1970s.
And the
column Elsewhere
in Egypt with
David Ruffel
, attached for the book at the
French Institute of Egypt
, Cairo.
He will tell us about the
news contest on Flaubert
, but also the
Maalesh
exhibition
,
an exhibition of photographs inspired by the eponymous book by Jean Cocteau.
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