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...France of 1848 they had good reason to. The earlier socialists, Saint-Simon, Robert Owen, Fourier, were really trying to create a more Christian life. With their socialist communities, workshops and phalansteries, they hoped to convert the world by good example. Most of the good examples came to life in the U. S., usually died a quick death, sometimes lingered like the Oneida Community or the Fourierist phalanstery near Red Bank, N. J. There the remnants of transcendental Brook Farm migrated. There Author Alexander Woollcott was born...
...George Sand wrote in her diary: "Farewell, Eros! You idol of my youth! . . . The present and future are free for the service of humanity. . . ." She began to write proletarian novels in which heroines no longer deserted their husbands for love but for the revolution and the socialist teachings of Saint-Simon and Louis Blanc...
...Unusually trustworthy times-&-manners fiction about France be fore the Revolution, by the sister of Julian Green. Miss Green's Duchess breaks silence in old age to describe her century with a fine grandmotherly wit, telling her tales about as well as they are told in the sources (Saint-Simon, Voltaire...
...earliest aerial-wedding proposal on record was made by the French Socialist Philosopher Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon. In 1802 he learned of the death of the husband of famed Essayist Mme Anne Louise Germaine de Staël. Promptly the Comte divorced his own wife, hastened to Geneva, informed Mme de Stael that he and she, ''the most extraordinary persons who exist.'' would be married in a balloon and would create a child "who will startle the world at large." Mme de Staël said...
...regard my own writing as French in form (Saint-Simon's 'Memories' and La Bruyere's Essays), German in sentiment (the music of Bach and Beethoven), and American in eagerness and energy...