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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)
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.
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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).
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.
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