Louise Julien

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Here is Joseph Dejacque’s speech from the funeral of radical poet Louise Julien. The wind-up at the end is particularly fascinating, being a mix of Fourierist passional science and fire-breathing revolutionary rhetoric. [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] Discourse Pronounced July 26, 1853 at the tomb of Louise Julien, exile by Joseph Déjacque Again a grave is opened… And this time, it is not a man. It is a woman that exile… that the circus devours to the applause of Caesar and his praetorian rabble. A poor and valorous woman, a humble martyr for an idea, […]