On this day 195 years ago, May 29, 1830 (April 8, 1830 lunar calendar), the heroine of the Paris Commune, Michel, was born. On January 9, 1905, the heroine of the Paris Commune, Louis Michel, died in Marseille. Her body was returned to Paris, and the people of Paris held a grand funeral for her with great respect. Michel was born on May 29, 1830 in the Château de Frangur in Haute-Marne, France, just a few miles from the hometown of Joan of Arc, the heroine of the British and French Hundred Years' War. After graduating from the normal school, she was not allowed to teach in the public school because she did not want to swear allegiance to the government of the Second Reich. She returned to her hometown to run a private school and lived a very poor life. In 1871, the great Paris Commune revolution broke out in France. She actively participated in the revolutionary struggle, participated in barricade battles with many women, and was praised as a "revolutionary heroine" by the Commune's Gazette. After the failure of the Commune, she escaped the enemy's search for a time. Later, when the Versailles took her mother away, she surrendered to the police in order to rescue her mother. In prison, she was righteous and despised all threats from the enemy. She said firmly: "All of us in 1871 are good at facing death and accepting death as our own." At the enemy's interrogation, she refused to be defended by a lawyer, saying: "My whole body and soul belong to the social revolution, and I declare that I am responsible for all my actions." She fearlessly demanded to die on the execution ground with other comrades. She sternly declared: "If you let me live, I will keep calling for revenge!" Her awe and righteousness shocked both inside and outside the courtroom. On the second day of her trial, the famous writer Victor Hugo wrote her poem "Greater Than Men". The court sentenced Michel to exile. In December 1873, she was escorted to the French colony of Nova Credonia in the Pacific Ocean. The living conditions of the exiles were harsh and she suffered all kinds of torture, but she did not waver. She also sympathized with the suffering of the colonial people and passionately taught the children of the local Kanak people to read. Her spirit was admired by her comrades and she was known as the "Red Virgin". In July 1880, the French government granted amnesty to the members of the Commune, and she returned to Paris. She wrote "The Commune" and "Memoirs", reviewing the course of her battle and celebrating the revolutionary spirit of the Paris Commune.