Blanqui

/ blɑ̃kɪ /

noun

1. BlanquiLouis Auguste18051881MFrenchPOLITICS: revolutionary 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

In 15 odd years of coming to Paris for work, one of my most memorable baguettes was at the Boulangerie Aux Delices de Glaciere on Boulevard Auguste Blanqui, near the offices of Le Monde newspaper.

From Washington Post

Merriman treats all Communard atrocities as the result of provocations and a misguided effort at self-defense—the Archbishop was taken hostage partly to protect the life of the left-wing leader Blanqui, then in a Versaillais prison—while atrocities committed against the Communards were, in his account, solely the consequence of an evil campaign of reactionary terror.

From The New Yorker

Buenos AiresNuestra Señora del Pilar This beautiful white colonial church is one of many that dot the city designed by the Jesuit architect Andrés Blanqui.

From New York Times

L., 81, 82, 98, 167, 178.Blanqui,

From Project Gutenberg

On the situation in France, see Blanqui's report in the Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences morales et politiques, II, 7.

From Project Gutenberg