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| | Biography of Louis-Auguste Blanqui (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | BLANQUI, LOUIS AUGUSTE (1805-1881), French publicist, was born on the 8th of February 1805 at Puget-Théniers, where his father, Jean Dominique Blanqui, was at that time subprefect. |
 | | The violence of the Société républicaine centrale, which was founded by Blanqui to demand a modification of the government, brought him into conifict with the more moderate Republicans, and in 1849 he was condemned to ten years’ imprisonment. |
 | | At the end of 1880, after a speech at a revolutionary meeting in Paris, he was struck down by apoplexy, and expired on the uncompromising communism, and his determination to enforce it by violence, necessarily brought him into conflict with every French government, and half his life was spent in prison. |
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