#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #FRANCE #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) France, UCL AL #325 - Culture, Lire: Louise Michel, «Au bagne de Nouvelle-Calédonie» (ca, de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]

 Against oblivion, the photographer and author Marinette Delanné invites us to

follow her through words and images in the footsteps of those condemned to
Caledonian prison. ---- The tragic trajectories of Communardes and Communards,
Arabs, Kanaks... of all those unknown in our social history, told by the author
and photographer Marinette Delanné. ---- We have just paid tribute to the
communards and communardes during the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune. Let
us not forget: the bloody week, the imprisonments, the humiliations, the
ill-treatment which were inflicted on the people of Paris. History, what am I
saying, the stories that the author of this book tells is the logical and
appalling continuation of a preconceived plan for the liquidation of popular
Paris, of these 450,000 workers and craftsmen, or 70% of the population. Paris is
scary. The massive deportation, the systematic massacre, the demonization of
these people, belong to this hidden history.

Marinette Delanné begins her story with a panorama of the jails of the metropolis
of Satory, Toulon, Fort Boyard and follows the horrors of transportation.
Numerous photographs of the places and cartographic landmarks accompany his remarks.

Conclude peace and submit Paris

She crosses eyes on Kanaks, metropolitan eyes, but also that of Louise Michel and
Charles Malato. She dwells on the fate of these deported women and these children
who sometimes had to accompany their parents. She puts images on unknown places
like the island of Nou, on Nouméa, the penal colony of Prony, fort Teremba, the
terrible peninsula of Ducos and the island of pines for simple deportation. The
whole is full of tenderness, respect and affection for all these humiliated,
these mistreated.
We can only rejoice at the publication of this work which provides a fairly
complete overview of the conditions of detention, the harshness of life in these
then inhospitable places. It is also a fine plea for recognition of this crime by
the French state against the communards and communardes, but also the Kanaks or
Arabs who were deported there.
After the time of shame, the time of forgetting, comes the time of memory.
“Recognition of the errors of colonization, recognition of the priority of the
Kanaks in New Caledonia,... recognition of the other victims of history who were
these forced inhabitants of the Island, the convicts and their descendants”.

"May this photographic expedition on the spot, which is addressed to the French
public more or less ignorant, as I was until a short time ago, of many aspects of
this historical drama, shed some light", such was one of your wishes. ,
Marinette. You have greatly succeeded in your bet.

In short, a book to advise anyone who wishes to document these disastrous times
which shame our humanities... and not limit themselves to the single person of
Louise Michel.

Dominique Sureau (UCL Angers)

Marinette Delanné, In the penal colony of New Caledonia in the footsteps of
Louise Michel... and all the other deported Communards, Petit Pavé, 2021, 366
pages, 28 euros.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Louise-Michel-Au-bagne-de-Nouvelle-Caledonie#325
Lire: Louise Michel, «Au bagne de Nouvelle-Calédonie»
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