Search Results: parole de providence et melanges by vigoureux clarisse

Nabu Press, 2012-03-05. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Paris: Librairie Phalanstherienne, 1847. Second edition. (enlarged). 8vo, pp. 127 + 12 page catalogue. Some light water staining, and dust staining to the paper wrappers which are bound in modern calf backed boards. Rare, the OCLC locates just one copy in the US (ZGM) and another in the UK (EVE). The widow of a cloth merchant, Vigoureux met utopian socialist Charles Fourier in 1822. After mainintaining a long correspondence, she became Fourier's leading female advocate and zealous propagandist, becoming the deciding voice in the L'Ecole Societaire. She died in 1865 at a Phalanstere commuity founded by her son-in-law in Texas. The Parole de Providence was first published in 1834 as a response to the theories of Lamennaise in which she apologized for the bloody violence in Lyon and Paris which she explained was the opposit of Fourier's theory of social harmony. The Melanges (the last 50 pages) are articles from the magazines La Phalange and La Democratie Pacifique published between 1838 and 1846.… Read More