18, Boulevard Auguste-Blanqui – École Estienne, the Graduate School of Arts and Printing Industry.
Either the partial failure of this literary effort, or his marriage soon afterwards to a daughter of the economist, Blanqui, caused him to devote himself to finance and to archaeology.
He wrote an introduction to this edition, emphasizing the historical significance of the experience of the Paris Commune, and its theoretical generalization by Marx in The Civil War in France, and also providing additional information on the activities of the Communards from among the Blanquists and Proudhonists.
The novel is filled with allusions to notable historical figures including Bismarck, Blanqui, Courbet, Dumas, Haussmann, and Thiers.
It is composed of the part of the 5th municipal arrondissement of Marseille situated west of rue Auguste-Blanqui (included), rue Saint-Pierre (included), boulevard Jean-Moulin (excluded), boulevard Baille, rue du Berceau, avenue de Toulon and a part of the 6th municipal arrondissement not part of the canton of Marseille-Vauban.
The crowd then marched to the City Hall of Paris, where it proclaimed an "insurrectionary government" with Blanqui, Ledru-Rollin, Albert L'Ouvrier, Louis Blanc, Aloysius Huber, Thoré, Pierre Leroux, and Raspail to serve as ministers.
Blanqui's political activism and his book L'Eternité par les astres were commented on by Walter Benjamin in his Arcades Project and are referenced in the novel The Secret Knowledge by Andrew Crumey.
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On 20 April 1879 he was elected a deputy for Bordeaux; although the election was pronounced invalid, Blanqui was freed, and immediately resumed his work of agitation.