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See also:BLANQUI, See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
LOUIS AUGUSTE (18o5-1881) , See also:French publicist, was See also:born on the 8th of See also:February 18o5 at See also:Puget-Theniers, where his See also:father, See also:Jean Dominique Blanqui, was at that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time sub-See also:prefect. He studied both See also:law and See also:medicine, but found his real vocation in politics, and at once constituted himself a See also:champion of the most advanced opinions. He took an active See also:part in the revolution of See also:July 183o, and continuing to maintain the See also:doctrine of republicanism during the reign of Louis Philippe, was condemned to repeated terms of imprisonment. Implicated in the armed outbreak of the Societe See also:des Saisons, of which he was a
or:
leading spirit, he was in the following See also:year, 184o, condemned to See also:death, a See also:sentence that was afterwards commuted to imprisonment for See also:life. He was released by the revolution of 1848, only to resume his attacks on existing institutions. The revolution, he declared, was a See also:mere See also:change of name. The violence of the Socikte republicaine centrale, which was founded by Blanqui to demand a modification of the See also:government, brought him into conflict with the more moderate Republicans, and in 1849 he was condemned to ten years' imprisonment. In 1865, while serving a further See also:term of imprisonment under the See also:Empire, he contrived to See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape, and henceforth continued his propaganda against the government from abroad, until the See also:general See also:amnesty of 1869 enabled him to return to See also:France. Blanqui's leaning towards violent See also:measures was illustrated in 187o by two unsuccessful armed demonstrations: one on the 12th of See also:January at the funeral of See also:Victor Noir, the journalist shot by See also:Pierre See also:Bonaparte; the other on the 14th of See also:August, when he led an See also:attempt to seize some guns at a barrack. Upon the fall of the Empire, through the revolution of the 4th of See also:September, Blanqui established the See also:club and See also:journal La patrie en danger. He was one of the See also:band that for a moment seized the reins of See also:power on the 31st of See also:October, and for his See also:share in that outbreak he was again condemned to death on the 17th of See also:March of the following year. A few days afterwards the insurrection' which established the See also:Commune See also:broke out, and Blanqui "was elected a member of the insurgent government, but his detention in See also:prison prevented him from taking an active part.
Nevertheless he was in 1872 condemned along with the other members of the Commune to transportation; but on See also:account of his broken See also:health this sentence was commuted to one of imprisonment. In 1879 he was elected a See also:deputy for See also:Bordeaux; although the See also:election was pronounced invalid, Blanqui was set at See also:liberty, and at once resumed his See also:work of agitation. At the end of 188o, after a speech at a revolutionary See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting in See also:Paris, he was struck down by See also:apoplexy, and expired on the 1st of January 1881. Blanqui's uncompromising See also:communism, and his determination to enforce it by violence, necessarily brought him into conflict with every French government, and See also:half his life was spent in prison. Besides his innumerable contributions to journalism, he published an astronomical work entitled L'Eternite See also:par See also:les astres (1872), and after his death his writings on economic and social questions were collected under the See also:title of Critique sod See also:ale (1885).
A See also:biography by G. See also:Geffroy, L'Enferme (1897), is highly coloured and decidedly See also:partisan.
End of Article: BLANQUI, LOUIS AUGUSTE (18o5-1881)
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