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  Louis Blanc - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Failing to receive aid from Pozzo di Borgo, his mother's uncle, Louis Blanc studied law in Paris, living in poverty, and became a contributor to various journals.
Its publication was interrupted by the revolution of 1848, when Louis Blanc became a member of the provisional government.
Louis Blanc possessed a picturesque and vivid style, and considerable power of research; but the fervour with which he expressed his convictions, while placing him in the first rank of orators, tended to turn his historical writings into political pamphlets.
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 NATIONAL WORKSHOPS - LoveToKnow Article on NATIONAL WORKSHOPS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The provisional government under the influence of one of its members, Louis Blanc, and on the demand of a deputation claiming to represent the people passed a decree (Feb. 25, 1848) from which the following is an extract: The provisional government of the French Republic undertakes to guarantee the existence of the workmen by work.
For the carrying out of this decree, Louis Blanc wanted the formation of a ministry of labor, but this was shelved by his colleagues, who as a compromise appointed a government labor Commission, under the presidency of Louis Blanc, with power of inquiry and consultation only.
Blanc renewed his motion for a ministry of labor; this was rejected.
41.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NA/NATIONAL_WORKSHOPS.htm   (1101 words)

  
 LOUIS BLANC - LoveToKnow Article on LOUIS BLANC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
On the joth of May he renewed, in the National Assembly, his proposal for a ministry of labor, but the temper of the majority was hostile to socialism, and the proposal was again rejected.
As far back as 1839 Louis Blanc had vehemently opposed the idea of a Napoleonic restoration, predicting that it would be despotism without glory, the Empire without the Emperor.
Louis Blanc possessed a picturesque and vivid,style, and considerable power of research; but the fervour with which he expressed his convictions, while placing him in the first rank of orators,, tended to turn his historical writings into political pamphlets.
98.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BL/BLANC_LOUIS.htm   (738 words)

  
 Louis Blanc: bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Louis Jean Joseph Charles Blanc (October 29, 1811 - December 6, 1882), was a French (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) politician (A person active in party politics) and historian (A person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it).
He was born in Madrid (The capital and largest city situated centrally in Spain; home of an outstanding art museum), where his father held the post of inspector-general of finance under Joseph Bonaparte (additional info and facts about Joseph Bonaparte).
On May 10, in the National Assembly, he again proposed a ministry of labour, but the majority was hostile to socialism (An economic system based on state ownership of capital), and the proposal was again rejected.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/lo/louis_blanc.htm   (662 words)

  
 Blanc, Jean-Joseph-Charles-Louis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Blanc, Jean-Joseph-Charles-Louis Born in Madrid, 1811; died in Cannes, 1882.
Blanc's failure as a political leader is partly explained by the limited opportunities open to a "Jacobin socialist" in 1848.
After the assembly convened Blanc failed equally signinficantly to use his remaining credit with the workers to moderate their militancy and save them, and the republic, from the reprisals which he realized would follow defiance of the conservative majority.
www.cats.ohiou.edu /~Chastain/ac/blanc.htm   (632 words)

  
 Blanc, Louis. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
As a member of the provisional government of 1848 he insisted on the establishment of the social workshops, but the plan was sabotaged by other leaders of the government.
After his return to France, he became (1871) a member of the national assembly and was later a leader of the left in the chamber of deputies.
Blanc’s ideas, which Marx labeled “utopian socialism,”; influenced the thought of later political thinkers, especially Ferdinand Lassalle and the German socialists.
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 Louis Blanc: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Louis Blanc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Louis Jean Joseph Charles Blanc (October 29, 1811 - 1882), French politician and historian, was born at Madrid, where his father held the post of inspector-general of finance under Joseph Bonaparte.
On May 10 he renewed, in the National Assembly, his proposal for a ministry of labour, but the temper of the majority was hostile to socialism, and the proposal was again rejected.
He died at Cannes on the 6th of December 1882, and on the 12th of December received a state funeral in the Père Lachaise.
www.encyclopedian.com /lo/Louis-Blanc.html   (636 words)

  
 LBJ School Record
Jean-Louis Blanc comes to the LBJ School from a career that has taken him to locales from rural Mexico and islands in the Caribbean to Brussels and the headquarters of the European Union (EU).
In France, Blanc served as the head of the Radio-Communications Bureau in the French Post and Telecommunications Ministry before joining the Office of the French Prime Minister as deputy director of CNCL (the regulatory body for telecommunications and broadcasting).
Blanc specifically requested UT Austin when he applied to be one of 10 EU fellows at American universities.
www.utexas.edu /lbj/pubs/record/spring00/faculty/international.html   (832 words)

  
 Louis Blanc Biography / Biography of Louis Blanc Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The French journalist, historian, and socialist politician Louis Blanc (1811-1882) greatly influenced the evolution of French socialism and modern social democracy.
Louis Blanc was born on Oct. 29, 1811, in Madrid, where his father was comptroller of finance for King Joseph, Napoleon's brother.
Though Blanc had been elected to the conservative National Assembly, that body expelled him from the government in May. It also abolished the Luxembourg Commission and on June 21 closed the workshops.
www.bookrags.com /biography-louis-blanc   (726 words)

  
 To the Editor of the Times 5 March 1851   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Blanc was a member of that committee, he must, therefore, have approved beforehand of this toast to M. Blanqui.
Blanc states the toast not to be sent by the prisoners of Belle Île, but to be the exclusive work of M. Blanqui.
As respects the “renown” of M. Louis Blanc, it would be more prudent for him not to touch upon that delicate subject, until this “renown” had recovered from the terrible blows which M. Proudhon, some time ago, inflicted upon it.
www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1851/03/05.htm   (492 words)

  
 Blanc Pain -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Blanc's success on the Jack Benny Program led to his own radio show on the CBS radio network, The Mel Blanc Show, which ran from September 3, 1946 to June 24, 1947.
Blanc's most famous role on Benny's TV show was as "Si, the Mexican" in which he spoke one word at a time.
Mont Blanc was first climbed was on August 8, 1786 by Jacques Balmat and Michel Paccard; the first woman to reach the summit was Marie Paradis in 1808.
www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/17/blanc-pain.html   (1443 words)

  
 University of Notre Dame Archives: Calendar (1839)
Blanc is to keep his peace among the blessings already so consoling: Ursulines, St. Michael, the hospital and asylum, St. Mary's, the piety and the prayers.
Blanc is to tell (Purcell's) sister (Margaret Purcell) that the Ladies ofthe Sacred H(eart) in Rome are praying for her at the novitiate in the Villa Sante on Mt. Janiculum on March 25.
Blanc's letter and that of Sister Regina (Smith, S.C.) and the two physicians have all been received relating to the good to be done in New Orleans by the opening of a new infirmary.
archives.nd.edu /calendar/cal1839.htm   (19577 words)

  
 Spielbank Bad Homburg - Information - Geschichte
At the end of the thirties of the last century: "A small dirty town" was the crushing judgement of François and Louis Blanc, when they saw Bad Homburg v.d.
All of the nobility of Europe came to Homburg for recreation and the castle became the summer residence of the emperor of Prussia.
The identical twins François and Louis Blanc, born on December 12th 1806 close to Avignon in the Provence as sons of a tax collector, were smart, far-sighted, business-minded and wanted to make money.
www.spielbank-bad-homburg.de /en/information/information_geschichte.htm   (1519 words)

  
 The French revolution of 1848
At the close of the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars (1789-1815) the Bourbon dynasty was restored in France in the person of a brother of the King who had been sent to the guillotine during the revolution.
This restoration King, Louis XVIII, alienated opinion due to his absolutist tendencies and his 'legitimate' monarchy was usurped in 1830 with a junior, Orleanist, branch of the dynasty being recognised as Kings of the French rather than as Kings of France.
The King installed in 1830, Louis Phillipe, was himself a son of a Bourbon prince who had offered some support to the revolution of 1879 and who had become known as Philip Egalite.
www.age-of-the-sage.org /history/1848/french_revolution_1848.html   (794 words)

  
 University of Notre Dame Archives: Calendar (1840)
Blanc is to give de Janson his respects; if he does not arrive in St. Louis until the end of the second week after Easter they will not have time to get to Baltimore for the Council which is to open the 4th Sunday after Easter.
Blanc is to give his respects to Bishop (Charles Forbin) de Janson and to tell him that Father Dacheux has been ill but today his strength and appetite have returned and he has resumed his prayers and saying Mass.
Blanc said in one of his letters that his visits to Pointe Coupée were too unfruitful but there is a great change in their parish and she is sure a visit would not be without great fruit now.
archives.nd.edu /calendar/cal1840.htm   (19244 words)

  
 Jean Joseph Louis Blanc: Biography of Jean Joseph Louis Blanc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Founded the "Revue du Progres," and published separately in 1840 "Organization of Labor," which had already appeared in the "Revue," a work which gained the favor of the working classes.
Returned to France on the fall of the empire, and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1871.
Blanc wrote an elaborate "History of the French Revolution." Died 1882.
www.sacklunch.net /biography/B/JeanJosephLouisBlanc.html   (84 words)

  
 Blanc, Louis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
He was accused of conspiracy and fled to England, where he wrote a History of the French Revolution in twelve volumes, Letters on England, Questions of Today and Tomorrow.
Louis Blanc had no little influence on the thought of his day.
Society should cease to be a battlefield, man competing with man. Each should contribute according to his ability and each should be compensated according to his needs.
www.factopia.com /aiton-encyclopedia-vol1/blanc-louis.htm   (194 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - February Revolution, in French history (French History) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
February Revolution, 1848, French revolution that overthrew the monarchy of Louis Philippe and established the Second Republic.
General dissatisfaction resulted partly from the king's increasingly reactionary policy, carried out after 1840 by FranCois Guizot, and partly from the poor conditions of the working class, which were intensified by the economic crisis of 1846–47.
The discrepancy of aims between bourgeois revolutionaries such as Alphonse de Lamartine and A. Marie and the radicals, led by Louis Blanc, contributed to the eventual failure of the revolution.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/F/FebrRFr.html   (454 words)

  
 Campbell School of Business -
Le Blanc, Louis A. and Willard M. Korn, "A Structured Approach to the Evaluation and Selection of CASE Tools," Proceedings of the 1992 Symposium on Applied Computing, Association for Computing Machinery, March 1-3, 1992, Kansas City, KS, pp.
Le Blanc, Louis A. and Bruce C. Payne, "A Risk-Adjusted Evaluation of Capital Budgeting and Port Grain Elevators," 1981 Annual Meeting, Southern Agricultural Economics Association, Atlanta, GA, February 1-3, 1981.
Le Blanc, Louis A., "A Queueing Model for the Simulation of a Port Grain Elevator," 1978 Annual Meeting, American Society of Planning Officials, New Orleans, LA, September 19-21, 1978.
www.campbell.berry.edu /faculty/vita.php?u=lleblanc   (4297 words)

  
 Louis
Louis is the French form of the Germanic name, Hludwig (or Chlodovech, or Chlodowig) It originally meant “Famous Warrior” from “hlud” (famous), and “wig” (warrior).
Louis had long been a favorite name in France, where Clovis I had been founder of the Frankish kingdom.
Louis was especially popular as a royal and noble name.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
When Louis Philippe fled France February 24, 1848, a handful of Bonapartists gathered at the Vendôme column with shouts of "Long live the Emperor!" There were few other early signs of support for this 40-year-old nephew of Napoleon I. Yet, by the end of the year he was president of France.
Despite the opposition of Lamartine and Ledru-Rollin, after a debate in the assembly Louis Napoleon was admitted as a member on June 13, with the support of Louis Blanc, Victor Hugo, and Jules Favre.
Louis Napoleon at once moved into the Elysée palace where he hosted a private banquet for veterans of the Strasbourg and Boulogne coups.
www.ohiou.edu /~Chastain/ip/louisnap.htm   (912 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Louis Blanc (Political Science, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Louis Blanc[lwE blAN] Pronunciation Key, 1811–82, French socialist politician and journalist and historian.
While in exile he wrote the 13-volume Histoire de la REvolution franCaise (1847–62), in which his admiration of Jacobinism was manifest.
Blanc's ideas, which Marx labeled "utopian socialism," influenced the thought of later political thinkers, especially Ferdinand Lassalle and the German socialists.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Blanc-Lo.html   (307 words)

  
 E. Belfort Bax: Morley + "National Workshops" of '48 (1906)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Accordingly, the idea put forward by Louis Blanc for establishing national workshops at Government expense, was nominally agreed to, the “Commission du Gouvernement pour les travaiileurs,” of which Louis Blanc was the most prominent member, being installed in one of the salons of the Luxembourg Palace.
And in spite of the fact that Louis Blanc shrieked himself hoarse in the Assembly protesting that he was not only in no way responsible for their organisation and management, but that it was even in opposition to his own ideas, this did not prevent the falsehood from being eagerly propagated by interested parties.
never M. Ledru Rollin, never M. Louis Blanc, never M. Flocon, never M. Albert.” In other words, none of the recognised socialist and democratic leaders of the day had any share whatever in the organisation or management of the scheme, which was exclusively machined by enemies intent upon proving its impracticability.
www.marxists.org /archive/bax/1906/02/natworkshops.htm   (933 words)

  
 VHM - Assembly at Bordeaux
Louis Blanc was first with 216,000 votes; then came myself with 214,000 votes, then Garibaldi with 200,000.
Louis Blanc, instead of a formal impeachment of the ex-Government of Paris, demands an inquiry.
Louis Blanc ascended the tribune (in the Assembly) and bade me farewell with grandeur and nobleness.
www.gavroche.org /vhugo/VHM/vhm-assembly.html   (3039 words)

  
 Professionally wirtten biography of Louis Blanc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The French journalist, historian, and socialist politician Louis Blanc (1811-1882) greatly influenced the evolution of French socialism and modern social democracy.Louis Blanc was born on Oct. 29, 1811, in Madrid, where his father was comptroller of finance for King Joseph, Napoleon's brother.
Financially ruined by the fall of the French Empire, the Blanc family returned to Paris, and Louis managed to earn enough from his writings to study law.In 1839 Blanc published his most famous essay, L'Organisation du travail ("The Organization of Labor").
Further Reading Most of Blanc's historical works and correspondence are available in English editions.
www.sayessay.com /biographies/Louis_Blanc-31870.html   (329 words)

  
 The Nation, 08/18/1870 - Louis Blanc's "Revolution of 1848"
This latest production of the eminent French réfugieé--a reelaboration for his countrymen of a work in English, has been provoked by the book "A Year of Revolution in Paris--is not a regular, detailed history, but rather a historico-critical review, of the extraordinary four months in the annals of France to which it is devoted.
...Only Albert and Flocon, who always sided with Louis Blanc, and Cremieux, who, though wavering between the parties, was always ready to shield him, are spoken of with unmixed praise...
...It is, however, chiefly interesting as a new self-manifestation of Louis Blanc himself, after twenty years of exile and comparative silence-of Louis Blanc, the socialist, the republican, and the historian...
www.nationarchive.com /Summaries/v011i0268_09.htm   (1410 words)

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