The New World

In 1883, the notorious anarchist Louise Michel (1830-1905) was sentenced to six years of solitary confinement. Effectively deprived of communication, she had had no refuge but writing. It is during that time that she penned "The Human Microbes" and a sequel, "The New World." Both are modeled on the classic feuilleton serials of the 1840s and were intended to be part of a six-novel series, in which mankind would build a new utopia on Earth before moving out into space.