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Blanqui

British  
/ blɑ̃kɪ /

noun

  1. Louis Auguste ( French lwi oɡyst). 1805–81, French revolutionary, who organized secret socialist societies and preached violent insurrection; he spent over 30 years in prison

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Flourens got the upper hand, read the names, his own first, then those of Blanqui, Delescluze, Millière, Ranvier, Félix Pyat, and Mottu.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.

Blanqui had brought up from the country and taken into his house, as a servant, the son of a poor man, whose wretchedness had touched him.

From The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville by Tocqueville, Alexis de

Upon the fall of the Empire, through the revolution of the 4th of September, Blanqui established the club and journal La patrie en danger.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various

On the 27th the Combat, which preached the Commune in high-flown phraseology whose musical rhythm struck the masses more than the nervous dialectics of Blanqui, hurls a terrific thunderbolt.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.

I need not say that this influence has not been restored by the absurd arrest to which he was subjected by Messrs. Flourens and Blanqui.

From Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Labouchere, Henry

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