Nicknamed 'the Confined One' for the thirty-seven years he spent, all told, in prison for his revolutionary activities, this socialist theorist, arrested just before the start of the 1871 Commune, nonetheless gave his name to a political movement. Who is he?
The answer
Louis-Auguste Blanqui spent nearly thirty-seven years of his life in prison, which earned him the nickname 'the Confined One'. Arrested a few days before the start of the Commune, he was absent from it, but his name remains attached to Blanquism, an insurrectionary revolutionary movement. He rests in Division 91.
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