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Je n'ai jamais franchi nos paisibles villages Et cependant mon front est avide d'orages. Seigneur, Seigneur, mon Dieu, livre mon aile aux vents, Ou rendez-moi semblable aux paisibles enfants, Que nulle voix n 'appelle au soir dans les nuages. 40 Her poetry was often not very good but then, even Lamartine and Hugo -the giants of the day -left a great deal of bad verse behind them as well. Louise even dared to send some of her poetry to Hugo, who -oh, bliss! -replied and encouraged her to write again. The child wondered constantly about the destiny that lay before her. She once wrote a graphologist named Vitu, whose articles she had found in the newspapers, sending him one of her poems and her signature ("Louise Michel," not "Louise Demahis"). It was an ambivalent sort of gesture, as much challenge as petition, for Louise had been strongly marked by her grandfather's rationalism and only half-believed in the occult sciences which were then so fashionable. Des ombres du tombeau, Nostradamus s'eveille Sous le nom de Vitu, le voila journaliste .. . Eh bien, sire devin, voici ma signature .. . Did she have black hair? White hair? Did she prefer "shadow and mystery" or "the splendour of d

Author

Edith Thomas; Henc Van Maarseveen

Publisher

Black Rose Books Ltd

Published

1983

Language

EN

ISBN

9781551646411

Subjects

Law, History, Biography

Updated

2026-03-24