She is known for her nursery rhymes book titled Rondes pour récréations enfantines, which was for a long time wrongly attributed to Louise Michel.

[4][6] In March 1894, Pioger returned to Paris to take over the management of the cabaret-café, even though the couple had sold the business before leaving for England.

As a member of the group Réveil de la femme à Paris, which also included Louise Michel, Pioger was arrested by the police on the evening of March 7 during a raid on the café.

Imprisoned again for criminal conspiracy, Pioger was finally released on June 25, 1895, by an order of dismissal issued by the investigating judge Meyer.

[4] In 1889, Pioger published a collection of anarchist songs under the pseudonym Louise Quitrime[8] (also spelled Quitrine).