The Red Virgin of Montmartre Young Widow

What sacrifice have you made What secret about your dead
that you regret most bitterly? husband have you not told anyone?

Former teacher of Félix

Marie Marchandon is a 22-year-old widow
Louise Michel is a 40-year-old woman; the
Current teacher of Camille of a man named Albert Christophe.
Improbable friend of Tariq
illegitimate daughter of a nobleman, Louise Daughter of Marguerite
Daughter of Léonard She works in her father’s wine shop
Works with Elisabeth is a schoolteacher, and a radical. She works
Tutor of Nguyen
and at the Women’s Union. She is the
tirelessly in the Montmartre committees
daughter of Marguerite and Léonard.
and serves in the National Guard.
National Guard
Communard

Washerwoman Former Political Prisoner

When you dream of fire, What tragedy can you not

what do you see burning? forgive yourself for causing?

Joséphine Marchais is a 32-year-old Husband of Marguerite Léonard Marchandon is a 46-year-old

washerwoman who helps the National Father of Marie man who was sent to prison in 1848
Wife of Jean Employer of Félix
Assistant to Dominique
Guard units by fetching water and helping for being a revolutionary. He owns a
Dominique care for the wounded. She Communard popular wine shop. He is married to
is the common-law wife of Jean Guy. Freemason Marguerite and is the father of Marie.

Soldier Dressmaker

Why didn’t you join the army and What did you have to do to get
fight against the Prussians in 1870? your husband out of prison?

Marguerite Marchandon is a 42-year-

Jean Guy is a 33-year-old man who old woman who raised her daughter
Husband of Joséphine Wife of Léonard
works as a butcher’s assistant and by herself for many years while her
Mother of Marie
National Guard corporal in the National Guard. He is the husband was in prison. She works as a
common-law husband of Joséphine. dressmaker and in the family wine shop.
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 Polish Amazon Midwife & Physician

When the Russians crushed the What cause do you fight for, and why have
Polish revolt in 1863, what did you lose? you chosen to fight for it in Montmartre?

Lodoïska Caweska is a 30-year-old Dominique Rousseau is a 28-year-

Lover of Amanda woman and a revolutionary socialist Manager of Joséphine old woman from an old and wealthy
originally from Poland. She is a soldier Friend of Pierre free family of color in Martinique. She
National Guard
in the National Guard and usually The International graduated from a medical school in the
is carrying several weapons. United States and is now a midwife and
physician for the neighborhood women.

Algerian Cavalryman Pstitute

Do you regret staying in Paris Had you ever loved anyone else
instead of joining the revolt that before you met Lodoïska?
recently started in Algeria?

Tariq Tannoudji is a 29-year-old Mother of Camille

Amanda Mercier is a 28-year-old woman
Improbable friend of Louise man. He is a spahi, a member of Lover of Lodoïska
who arrived in Paris while still a young
a light cavalry unit brought from
National Guard National Guard girl. She worked as a model for artists
Algeria by the French Army to Communard
until she became pregnant with Camille.
fight against the Prussians.

Poet Child

Why haven’t you joined the Who have you asked to

National Guard? teach you how to shoot?

Camille Mercier is the 12-year-old child of

Ex-student of Louise
Works for Léonard
Félix Vincent is a 28-year-old man. He is Amanda. They are also currently a student
a radical proletarian poet, an occasional Child of Amanda
of Louise when they have the time.
The International Student of Louise
Freemason
journalist, and former student of Louise.
(Note that Camille is not a gendered name in
French and Camille can be of any gender.)
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 Painter Military Commander

Whose love did you lose, and Are you truly ready to die
can you ever regain it? for this revolution?

Husband of Anna
Gustave Courbet is a 51-year-old man Victor Jaclard is a 31-year-old man trained
Works with Gustave
Works with Victor and one of the leading artists of his Admirer of Léonard
in medicine and mathematics who became
generation, painting everyday life in a a radical opponent of Napoleon III. He
Communard National Guard
grand manner. He is a life-long socialist is commander of a National Guard unit
The International
and active in the Commune’s government. and a member of the International.

Revolutionary Student

Who gives you the Why do you think you were

strength to fight on? chosen to be schooled in France?

Elisabeth Dmitrieff is a 21-year-old Russian Nguyen Van Vinh is a 17-year-old man born in Saigon,
Works with Louise woman sent by Karl Marx to observe part of French-occupied Cochinchina. A French
conditions in the Commune. Despite her age,
Tutored by Louise missionary priest sponsored him to become a student
The International at a Catholic school in Paris. He is expected to return
Communard she has become an important member of many
committees, especially the Women’s Union. home after his education, as part of either the church
or to serve the colonial administration of the region.
(Note: Nguyen is his family name.)

Journalist Veteran

What story about yourself have Is there anything that can break
you never told anyone? through your disillusionment?

Anna Jaclard is a 27-year-old Russian woman. Pierre “Peter” Williams is a 32-year-old man from
Wife of Victor Born Anna Vasilyevna Korvin-Krukovskaya, a French-speaking family of Creoles of color in
Friend of Dominique
she has written for radical circles in New Orleans, Louisiana. He moved to Boston and
The International was active in the Abolitionists, then joined the
Freemason
Russia; Dostoevsky proposed to her but
she turned him down. She is married Union Army as part of one of the African-American
to Victor Jaclard, a fellow radical. regiments. He deserted just before the end of the war
and moved to Paris, where he now works as a baker.
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