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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 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.
Blanqui’s mother Sophie dies; shortly before her death she orders that all of Blanqui’s papers in her possession, including a large number of carefully elaborated manuscripts written in the 1840s, be destroyed.
It is a paradox of history that Louis Auguste Blanqui, the most consistent and memorable of revolutionaries, should have received such brief notice in recent historical appreciations. Yet during over half a century of conspiracy, violent action and imprisonment, he virtually personified the revolutionary movement in nineteenth-century France.
Jul 15, 2018 · Blanqui saw through his many defeats that without constant vigilance and insurrection, the royalists will simply take more and more from the people. Fatalism is fatal. Blanqui also cared for science and hated the church, members of which he termed the “black army” (think Catholic clergy attire).
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.
