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Show BLAKQUI. The leading spirit of the Communists Commun-ists in Paris is Louis Augusto Blanqui, who has been a "Red" of the first water for more than thirty years. He was born in Nice in 1S05, and is consequently conse-quently sixty years of age. His father was a deputy to the National Convention Conven-tion in the first French Revolution,and was one of the seventy-three imprisoned impris-oned in 1793 for protesting against some measure of the Jacobins; and he was afterwards a member of the Council of Five Hundred and sub-perfect under Napoleon. Louis Augusto Blanqui is described as a thorough classical scholar, having begun life as a teacher. But for the past forty years he has devoted himself him-self to the cause of political agitation. In 1827 he was wounded in a political riot in Paris. In 1831 he was tried for some political offence and acquitted. A few years since he was arrested again, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment im-prisonment and to pay a fine. In 1837 he was pardoned. In 1839 he orgaa-ised orgaa-ised an insrrection, which succeeded in capturing the Hotel de Ville. For this he was again arrested by the police po-lice of Paris, and condemned to death. This setence was commuted into imprisonment im-prisonment for life. In 1848 he was pardoned again, and set at liberty. He then founded a revolutionary club; was soon after arrested again, and sentenced sen-tenced to ten years' imprisonment. He was engaged in the riot at Paris during the recent seige, and was condemned con-demned to death, but the sentence was not carried into execution. Hichmond Enquirer. |
