Auguste Blanqui was one of the most visible socialist
theorists and activists of his generation, contributing to the development
of a highly theatrical form of insurrectionary activism that became
known as ‘Romantic socialism’. Auguste openly led several armed revolts
against a series of régimes, beginning in the Montaignard uprisings of
the early 1830s, through the proletarian demonstration against the
short-lived, limited-republican government of 1848, until 1870 when he
was imprisoned after another uprising, less than a month before the
advent of the Paris Commune, which included thousands of his followers.
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