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The grave of Auguste Blanqui, Père La Chaise Cemetery, Paris. Following a speech at a political meeting in Paris, Blanqui had a stroke. He died on 1 January 1881 and was interred in the Père Lachaise Cemetery. His elaborate tomb was created by Jules Dalou.
Louis-Auguste Blanqui (1805-1881) was one of the most important figures in nineteenth-century French revolutionary politics, and he played a role in all of the great upheavals that punctuated his life – the insurrections of 1830, 1848 and 1870-71.
Nov 12, 2018 · In a century replete with radical politics, final liberations, historical codas, and dreams of eternity, the shadowy figure of Louis-Auguste Blanqui, the constant revolutionary, wrote Eternity by the Stars in the last months of 1871 while incarcerated in Fort du Taureau, a marine cell of the English Channel.
Feb 9, 2017 · Blanqui languished in solitary confinement as tens of thousands of Communards were slaughtered that May. The conditions in prison had not improved, and he awaited death each day. Blanqui began to wonder if his whole lifetime had been a waste.
Died: January 1, 1881, Paris (aged 75) Auguste Blanqui (born February 1, 1805, Puget-Théniers, France—died January 1, 1881, Paris) was a revolutionary socialist, a legendary martyr-figure of French radicalism, imprisoned in all for more than 33 years. His disciples, the Blanquists, played an important role in the history of the workers ...
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May 2, 2023 · Louis-Auguste Blanqui Archive. 1805-1881. “it is my duty as a proletarian, deprived of all the rights of the city, to reject the competence of a court where only the privileged classes who are not my peers sit in judgment over me”. [Defence Speech]. Biography of Blanqui.
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Louis-Auguste Blanqui BLANQUI, LOUIS AUGUSTE (1805-1881) , French publicist, was born on the 1st of February 1805 at Puget-Théniers, where his father, Jean Dominique Blanqui, was at that time subprefect.
