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Louis Auguste Blanqui (French pronunciation: [lwi oɡyst blɑ̃ki]; 8 February 1805 – 1 January 1881) was a French socialist, political philosopher and political activist, notable for his revolutionary theory of Blanquism. Biography. Early life, political activity and first imprisonment (1805–1848)
This page provides, in broadly chronological order, a sampling of photographs and other images that may help to illustrate Blanqui’s life and times.
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).
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.
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. Louis Blanqui was born in Puget-Théniers, near Nice, on Feb. 1, 1805.
Jul 15, 2018 · There are two famous portraits of Louis-Auguste Blanqui. The first, painted by his wife Amelie-Suzanne Serre, in 1835, depicts the young revolutionary with arms crossed, eyes aimed outside the frame, a fashionable beard, and a no-bullshit expression hardened from republican revolution and a short stint in jail.
