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Blanqui, Louis-Auguste
Louis-Auguste Blanqui (1805–81) was a nineteenth-century French republican activist and a legendary revolutionary insurgent. He was born in Puget-Théniers in southern France, the son of a minor official in Napoleon’s government. To give him every advantage, his parents sent him as an adolescent to Paris for study at the lycée Charlemagne. A bright student, he subsequently enrolled in both the faculties of law and of medicine at the University of Paris, though he never earned a degree. Instead, he became involved in the republican opposition to the restored Bourbon monarchy (1814–30), both as journalist and conspirator in the secret societies of that era.
Blanqui played a significant role in the politics of insurrection in Paris throughout much of the mid-nineteenth century. He participated in all of ...
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