Louis Blanc

While in Paris, she visited Louis Blanc 's tailoring workshop, Blanqui's Club , and saw the christening of the Second Republic (which had been declared on 24 February) on 4 May from the Tuileries Gardens...

EHD considered William Heinemann , her publisher, as also a close personal friend. She once attended a party in St John's Wood at the house of Karl Blind (stepfather of the poet...

In London, ED met John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor . At Emily Faithfull 's parties, frequented by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, Isa Craig , and Bessie Rayner Parkes, she met Anthony Trollope , Louis Blanc

Ishmael is set in Brittany and Paris, mainly between 1850 and 1867, during the reign of Louis Napoleon . The title character is the son of a Breton aristocrat, despised by his father on...