biography
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Blanc, (Jean Joseph Charles) Louis
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pronunciation:
[blã]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1811–82)
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| biography:
| French statesman and historian, born in Madrid, Spain. His chief work on socialism, the Organisation du travail (1840, The Organisation of Labour), denounces the principle of competitive industry and proposes the establishment of co-operative workshops, subsidized by the state. After the revolution of 1848, he was appointed a member of the provisional government, but was forced to flee to England. On the fall of the empire, he returned to France, and was elected in 1871 to the National Assembly, and in 1876 to the Chamber of Deputies. |
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