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On September 1st, 1870, the imperial government of Napoleon III was defeated in the Franco-Prussian War.

While Paris was besieged by occupying troops and local republican forces vied for political supremacy, a revolutionary movement was gaining strength on the hill of Montmartre.

The Paris Commune was about to take shape, a period of self-management that for barely two months touched the sky of anarchist utopia.

Today a heroine of the French people, the educator, poet, and orator Louise Michel, the so-called Red Virgin, fought on the front lines during that turbulent and repressive era that was the second half of the 19th century.

Her ideals were an egalitarian and secular education, a free marriage where the man had no right of ownership over the woman, and a caring treatment for the oppressed, the rebels, and the helpless.

Following the success of Suffragette, Mary M. Talbot and Bryan Talbot, champions of a type of graphic novel of historical rigor that commemorates the insurrection, reconstruct in these pages the life and circumstances of an extraordinary woman who fought on the barricades, led a female battalion, and ended up living deported in a penal colony in New Caledonia, always faithful to the sign of the black flag and persevering in her feminist ideals