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ImjJroved. The preface was extensively reprinted (and frequently revised) under sllch
titles as Th e T#ty to Wealth.
8. Reference to the quarrel, at the end of 1831, between Enfantin (who soon -withdrew
to his estate at Menilmontant, -with forty disciples) and other leading Saint-Simonians,
including Bazard, Rodrigues, and Leroux, over dle question of relations between the
sexes.
9. Saint-Simon married the young writer and musician Sophie de Champgrand in August
1801; havingjust assumed the role of patron of the sciences, he was in need of a
hostess. The marriage was dissolved, by mutual consent, in June 1802. "I used
marriage as a means of studying scientists" (Selected Writings on Science, Industry and
Social Organization, p. 19).
10. Auguste Comte became Saint-Simon's assistant in 1817, following his expulsion from
the Ecole Poly technique for insubordination. It was in 1824-after seven years of
collaboration-that a long-standing dispute belween the MO men finally led Comte
to -withdraw his support.
11. See aI5,2-4, and pl,3. Evadamism: Eve + Adam + ism. Le Mapah (mater + pater)
was the name taken by a sculptor named Garmeau, arollnd 1835, in forming a cult
that advocated the complete equality-and ultimate fusion-of men and women.
12. See p2,5, and entries follo-wing.
13. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Selected Correspondence, 3rd ed., trans. I. Lasker
(Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1975), p. 82.
14. Siefried Kracauer, Orpheus in Pans: Offinbach and the Pans qfHis Time) trans. Gwenda
David and Eric Mosbacher (New York: Knopf, 1938), p. 95.
15. One of MO cemeteries in the old Constantinople district of Per a (now called Beyoglu)
in Istanbul, on the north side of the Golden Hom. 111ere was a grand and a petit
Champ des Morts, both destroyed by fire and renovations in the course of dle
nineteenth century.
16. Honore de Balzac, Gaudlssart the Great, trans. James Waring (philadelphia: Gebbie,
1899), pp. 351-352.
17. Plan conceived by Napoleon ] for blocking English merchandise from entering the
Continent.
18. Honon de Balzac, The Wild Ass s Skin, trans. Herbert J. Hunt (London: Penguin,
1977), p. 60.
v [Conspiracies, Compagnonnage 1
Compagnonnage refers to trade guilds, solidarity associations among workers. The word
comes from compagnon: "companion;' "workman;' '1ourneyman." A central feature of
cornpagnonnage, up through the middle of the nineteenth century, was the tour de P,"ance, in
which journeymen artisans traveled to various towns of France seeking employment in
order to complete their professional training. The tour generally lasted three to four years
and culminated in the production of a masterwork.
1. The anny was persuaded to disarm by the passive conduct of the Garde Nationale.
2. The trial ofEtiemlc Cabet for sedition.
3. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Collected Works, vol. 10 (New York: International
Publishers, 1978), pp. 316-319, 312-313, 312 (b-ans. Christopher Upward).
4. Marx and Engels, Collected Works, vol. 17, trans. Rodney Livingstone (New Yo rk:
International Publishers, 1981), pp. 79-80 (Herr Vagt (1860]).
5. Societe des Saisons: name of a secret society established by Blanqui, in 1837, -with the