Louis Jean Joseph Charles Blanc was a French politician, historian, and socialist.
23 Facts About Louis Blanc
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Louis Blanc called for the creation of cooperatives in order to guarantee employment for the urban poor.
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Louis Blanc wanted the government to encourage co-operatives and replace capitalist enterprises.
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Louis Blanc's advocacy failed and, caught between radical worker tendencies and the National Guard, he was forced into exile.
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Louis Blanc returned to France in 1870, shortly before the conclusion of the Franco-Prussian war and served as a member of the National Assembly.
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Louis Blanc's father held the post of Inspector General of Finance under Joseph Bonaparte.
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In 1847, Louis Blanc published the two first volumes of his Histoire de la Revolution Francaise.
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Louis Blanc believed that workers could control their own livelihoods, but knew that unless they were given help to get started the cooperative workshops would never work.
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Under government control the railway system would provide the bulk of the funding needed for this and other projects Louis Blanc saw in the future.
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Louis Blanc's ideas were questioned and he lost much of the respect which had given him influence with the public.
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Louis Blanc was condemned to deportation in absentia by a special tribunal at Bourges.
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Louis Blanc was active in the masonic organisation, the Conseil Supreme de l'Ordre Maconnique de Memphis.
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Louis Blanc's declining years were darkened by ill-health and by the death, in 1876, of his wife Christina Groh, whom he had married in 1865.
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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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The Paris Metro Station Louis Blanc is named after him.
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Louis Blanc is sometime cited as the first person to use the word capitalism in something like its modern form.
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Louis Blanc was unusual in advocating for socialism without revolution first.
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Louis Blanc invented the right to work with his Le Droit au Travail.
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Louis Blanc resisted what he perceived as the atheism implicit in Hegel, claiming that it corresponded to anarchism in politics and was not an adequate basis for democracy.
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Louis Blanc regarded liberalism and Protestantism as part of the same historical and ideological movement and accordingly considered the French Revolution of 1789 as a political outgrowth of the individualistic rejection of authority inherent in Protestantism and heretical movements.
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Louis Blanc thought the best of the revolution was the Jacobin dictatorship in the communitarian spirit of Catholicism.
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Louis Blanc himself sought to combine Catholicism and Protestantism in order to synthesize the values of authority, community, and individualism that he both affirmed as necessary for community.
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Louis Blanc was hopeful about the religious innovation taking place in early revolutionary France.