Alexandra David-Néel
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Alexandra David-Néel was a French explorer, spiritualist, Buddhist, anarchist, opera singer, and writer. She is most known for her 1924 visit to Lhasa, Tibet, when it was forbidden to foreigners. Davi
Alexandra David-Néel in Tibet, 1933
Alexandra David-Néel's portrait from her book My Journey to Lhasa.
Road named Alexandra David-Néel in Massy, Essonne, suburb of Paris.
Alexandra David-Néel tram station on line 3a of the Île-de-France tramway
Communards
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The Communards were members and supporters of the short-lived 1871 Communes in France formed in the wake of the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War.
Alexandra David-Néel
…Ram Dass, and the esotericist Benjamin Creme. In 1871, when David-Néel was two years old, her father Louis David, appalled by the execution of the last Communards, took her to see the Communards' Wall at the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris; she never forgot this early encounter with the face of death, from which…
Communards (National Guards) at Boulevard Voltaire
"The Commune stopped by Ignorance and Reaction"
Executed Communards (National Guards)
Antoine Perrare's (a former Communard and member of the Anti-authoritarian International) mugshot taken by Alphonse Bertillon (Anthropometric File of Anarchists - 1894)