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DEATH LOUIS BLANC.
pse orau Adventurous Career.

close OIL aH Adventurous career.
The telegraph announces the death of
Louis Blanc. Although a Frenchmau he was
not born in France. The place of his birth
was Madlid, where he first saw the light OF
day on the 2Sth of October 1918. Louis re-
sided with his mother until he was seven
wears old, when he was carried TO France
aud placed ut school. The French rcvolu-
tiun of 1880 ruined the fortune OF the elder
Bauc, and the son, at the age of nineteen, was
recalled from school TO Paris to share the
pcvcrty of the family. In 1884 he rcturnc
10 Paris. and began his journalistic SER
vice On IL BDR-SeHS II periodical of adyanc-
ell opini ms. Ia 1899 he established La Reuue
dQ PID}y9S, devoted to literature, politics and
socialism. Its specifically announced idea was
the combination of Democratic associations
for the purpose of political reform. During
the first year of its existence and on the day
of the Fec Napoleon (the 10Th of August,
he published a paper in which he eulogzcd
Bonapartst Liberalism. A few days after,
as he was returning late to his lodgings, he
was waylaid by four masked men, who
bruIaliy beat him with canes and stones and
left him on the pavement for dead. 1t was
known at that time that the government
hated him, aud the populace readily believed
that this attrlciOus assault was aided, if ii
was not wholly committed by the police. 1t
cast the glamour of martyrdom about him
and crowned his reputation rs an advocate
of til, people. After a serious illness OF sew
ural weeks NJ. Blanc resumed his duties ON
his journal, and stung by injury and en-
Outraged by popular applause, he wrote his
essays On The Organization of Labor"
which in 1871 were issued In volume. His
theory was in many respects openly commit
nistic. He proposed that individuals shoIld
permit the plomptings of seliishncss to be
sunk in a generous striving for the common
good lie would have overwhelmed the idea
OF the individual in tho idea of the society
In 1s4l NJ. Blanc published his History
of Ten Years. including the period from
1880 to 1910, AMI it was violent attack on
the reign of Louis Philippe. The success of
this book was sudden and immense The
effect of this book was to give NJ. Blanc
much literary fame and great power among
the people, and 10 aid in prccipiating the
revolution OF lS4s. Shortly before the latter
event h. published the two first volumes of
his Ill ,ry OF the French Revolution"
written from socialistic poin' OF view.
When the revolution of 1S4S swept Louis
Philippe from his throne aud carried his
throne with hun the popularity OF VI. Blanc
among the working classes was such that he
was al once tCsl In1tcu as u nlclnOcr OF the
provisional government. On the 11th of
March 200, 900 workiugmon at Paris invited
NJ. Blame To assume the Dictatorship in the
pane Of French socialism. lie was wise
q" -uah to decline, and he Counsclcd his adj
Iitcrs to preserve ordcr. On the 26th OF
August the Constituent Assembly aulhoriz-
ed that he should he prosecuted Tor shedding
blood ON the night OF lis mar OWES ape. Al
the advice of friends he fled from France to
England lis exile lasted from August,
ls4s, until september, 1870. Meanwhile he
was under sentence OF death from the High
Cont of BourGcs. During his residence Of
twenty-five years in England he continued
his vocation of publicist aud historian, and
for ~ ars OF that lime he wrote and ed
ned nonthly periodical, which was publish.
ed i'll Paris He wrote also, several PAM
plcts.
Upon the downfall of the :, conl Empire,
in 1870, Louis Blanc returned 10 Paris. In
February, 1871, he was elected a member of
the National Assembly. lie was second in
the order Of Gle ton, having his place be-
tween that of Edgar (luinct and that of Vic
tor Hugo. With those two friends he voted
for continuance of the war. But peace
was sought. II was thought that NJ. Blanc
was returning 10 his old socialist doctrines,
but he suddenly became II follower of NJ.
Theirs. From that time his political inilu-
ence was gone.