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This page provides, in broadly chronological order, a sampling of photographs and other images that may help to illustrate Blanqui’s life and times.
- The Blanqui Archive – Auguste Blanqui and his legacy ...
Auguste Blanqui and his legacy: writings, manuscripts,...
- The Blanqui Archive – Auguste Blanqui and his legacy ...
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.
Auguste Blanqui and his legacy: writings, manuscripts, resources. 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.
The most detailed and informative biography of Blanqui is Alain Decaux’s Blanqui, L’Insurgé: La Passion de la révolution (1976); the most substantial biography in English is Samuel Bernstein’s Auguste Blanqui and the Art of Insurrection (1971).
Auguste Blanqui 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’ movement even after his death.
- Jean Bruhat
May 18, 2018 · The French revolutionary Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805-1881) was an unrelenting enemy of every French regime of the 19th century. The most heroic figure in the French socialist movement, he spent most of his life in prison.
Examining Blanc's Organization of Labor, this article shows how Blanc mobilized democracy to challenge the July Monarchy's exclusionary representative government and its reduction of the “social question” to pauperism.
