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diminished by the inevitable compromises necessitated by the exercise of power. Barbès, perhaps more thoughtful than his colleague, was fascinated by
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in April 1841, they were punished by imprisonment in the "loges" section of the prison, in view of the warder on duty. The prison administration then equipped their cells with double gates to prevent them from approaching the cross in what, after all, had been an abbey before its conversion to a high-security prison at the time of the
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Assembly, under the pretext of presenting a petition urging the government to become more involved in the liberation of Poland. Barbès, initially opposed the demonstration, and he tried to disperse the crowd, but he seemed to lose his head when he saw Auguste Blanqui in the assembly chamber.
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The two men, who had become distrustful of one another, ended up hating each other with the same passion that had fueled their early revolutionary collaboration. Nonetheless, both are major figures in the
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Upon their arrival, the inmates fought against the rigors of solitary confinement by maintaining a continuous din from the windows, up the chimneys, and through the walls. After repeated trials, Barbès, Bernard, and an old comrade, Delsade, managed to open the doors of their cells to meet. Discovered
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Released from prison in 1848, Barbès seemed to his contemporaries to be obsessed with thwarting
Blanqui. Elected to the Constituent Assembly of 23 April 1848, Barbès, at the extreme left of the chamber, represented his native department of Aude. His parliamentary career was brief, however, since, on
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Society of Seasons was organized on the principle of a hierarchy of cells. A "week" was a group of six men and a leader. Four "weeks" made a "month" of twenty-eight "days" (actually, twenty-eight initiates, plus a leader.) Three months constituted a "season", and four "seasons" made a "year".
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In an effort to seize the demonstration as a tool to bludgeon his enemy, he sparked a riot in front of the city hall, where a new, and more radical, republic was proclaimed. The insurgency was 'deflated' by itself when
National Guard arrived to stop Barbès. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in
817:À l'occasion de l'exposition "Barbès – 1848" (nov. 1998-fév 1999) à Carcassonne (Maison des Mémoires), un catalogue a été édité : Armand Barbès et la Révolution de 1848, par Sylvie Caucanas et Marie-Noëlle Maynard, Carcassonne, Musée des Beaux-Arts et Archives départementales de l’Aude, 79 p.
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On the nights of 10 and 11 February 1842, Barbès, Blanqui, and others attempted to escape in fog using a rope made of knotted sheets. Barbès was the first over the wall, but he was injured in the fall, which doomed the escape attempt. All of them were confined again in their cells. Shortly after
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814:"Barbès et les hommes de 1848", colloque de Carcassonne organisé en nov. 1998 par l’association Les Audois, les Archives départementales de l’Aude et l’Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail, sous la direction de Sylvie Caucanas et Rémy Cazals.
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805:" Deux jours de condamnation à mort ", par Armand Barbès, 1re édition Bry ainé Paris 1848,2e Edition Pellet Paris 1849,3e Edition Pagnerre Paris 1870, 4e Edition Boulanger Paris 1893, 5e Edition l'Atelier du Gué Villelongue d'Aude 2005.
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