Louis Pujol

Revolutionary socialism 1822–1866 ✕ Died in a shipwreck

Blanquist agitator who led the National Workshops men and gave the signal for the June Days rising at the Bastille in 1848

Born in 1822 at Saint-Girons, a tailor's son, he served as a sergeant in the Chasseurs d'Afrique, was released after the February Revolution and came to Paris, where he became a lieutenant in the National Workshops of the old 12th arrondissement, in charge of relief. A bureau member of Blanqui's Central Republican Society, he joined the invasion of the Assembly on 15 May. On 22 June he was spokesman of the workshop delegation received by Marie for the Executive Commission and defied him; at dawn on the 23rd he made the crowd swear an oath at the Place de la Bastille and led it to the first barricade on the rue Saint-Denis. Arrested and sentenced by a court martial to transportation, he was later amnestied, passed through Spain and London, and in 1858 went to New York. He became a colonel in the Union army and died in a shipwreck in 1866 while carrying arms for Juárez's partisans.

Also known as: Louis Ferdinand Pujol