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

---

Example Sentences

Blanqui used to say—according to Kropotkin—that there were in Paris fifty thousand men ready at any moment for an insurrection.

From Violence and the Labor Movement by Hunter, Robert

You must not take the vaporings and bombast of the Paris Bourgeois or the ranting of Blanqui and the Belleville roughs as the voice of France.

From A Girl of the Commune by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

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

Either the partial failure of this literary effort, or his marriage soon afterwards to a daughter of the economist Blanqui, caused him to devote himself to finance and to archaeology.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various

The Jacobins like Delescluze and Blanqui, instead of leading the people, lived in an exclusive circle of friends.

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