pocket. In 1834, his membership in a Jacobin-leaning organization, the Sociétédes Droits de l'Homme (Society for the Rights of Man), led to his first arrest
Communist League, participated. Implicated in the armed outbreak of the SociétédesSaisons, of which he was a leading member, Blanqui was condemned to death
function. The situation seemed at an impasse, when on 12 May 1839, the Sociétédessaisons, a secret Republican society, headed by Martin Bernard, Armand Barbès
imprisoned for shooting a police officer during a coup attempt by the Sociétédessaisons, led by Louis Auguste Blanqui and Armand Barbès. Some sources state