WorkLouis Blanc

Histoire de dix ans, 1830–1840 [History of Ten Years, 1830–1840]

Louis Blanc (1811–1882)

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Documented 1850

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  • 1850Histoire de dix ans (Ten Years)Attested

    “I have been more occupied by reading- Louis Blanc's "Ten Years", LaMartine, and other books, which throw light on recent transactions.”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. 1? February 1850] (letter dateline); 'this last two months...I have been more occupied by reading'

    MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re473 (Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections), Mem-2-10.txt line 27626-27629; tier A; same passage); re476 (Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe, p.257; tier C; same passage) — counted once here. Explicit first-person statement: 'I have been more occupied by reading- Louis Blanc's Ten Years'.

  • 1850Histoire de dix ans (Ten Years)Attested

    “have read Macaulay's History of the James 2nd Period, Louis Blanc's Ten Years, and many books of that class, where were some facts I wanted.”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Florence 15th Feb 1850 (letter dateline)

    Same letter's explicit 'have read...Louis Blanc's Ten Years' statement.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe2records
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Letter to Unknown

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“I have been more occupied by reading- Louis Blanc's "Ten Years", LaMartine, and other books, which throw light on recent transactions.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

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Letter to Emelyn Story

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“I have felt like reading more than for some years past, have read Macaulay's History of the James 2nd Period, Louis Blanc's Ten Years, and many books of that class, where were some facts I wanted.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

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Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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“I have been occupied somewhat in reading Louis Blanc's Ten Years, Lamartine's Girondists, and other books of that class, which throw light on recent transactions.”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.