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Mode, comte Louis (1781-1855). Premier of France 1836-1839. He was one of the
deputies who opposed the coup d'etat of 1851.
Mohammed Ali (1769-1849). Albanian-born soldier; viceroy of Egypt 1805-1848.
Wrested control of Egypt from the Ottoman Empire and established a modem state.
MoUrn, Tony (1832-1871). French utopian writer. Author of Pans en Ian 2000 (1869).
Molenes, Paul de (1821-1862). French army officer and dandy. Friend of Baudelaire.
Molinari, Gustave de (1819-1912). Belgian political economist, in Paris 1843-1851, and
from 1857 on. Became editor of Le Journal des dibats (1867), and Le Journal des
econom;stes (1881).
Moll,Joseph (1813-1849). German watchmaker. Member of the Central Committee of
the Communist League. Killed in a revolt in Baden.
Le Monitellr universel Daily newspaper published in Paris 1789-1901. From 1799 to
1869, an official government organ.
Monnier, Henri (1805-1877). Caricaturist and playwright. Creator (1830) of the popular
character Joseph Prudhomme, the typical bourgeois. Discussed by Baudelaire in
"Qyelques Caricaturistes franais.))
Monselet, Charles (1825-1888). Critic and journalist. Founder of La Sema;ne tllifatraZe
(1851), in which Baudelaire published criticism and poetty.
Montesquieu, Charles (1689-1755). Lawyer, man of letters, and political philosopher
whose liberal theories inspired the DeclaTation of the Rights of Man and the Constitution
of the United States.
Montesquiou, Robert de (/855-1921). Aristocratic poet and essayist. Supposed model
for Huysmans' des Esseintes and Proust's Charlus.
Moreas, Jean (1856-1910). Greek-born poet who settled in Paris in 1882. Associated
with the Symbolists and later with the Ecole Romane. Author of Les SJI"les (1884),
Stances (/899-1901).
Morgan, Lewis Henry (/8/8-1881). American ethnologist and archaeologist, student of
American Indian cultme. Author of Anaent Society (1877).
The Mother (fa Mere) . Female messiah of the Samt-Simonians. She was supposed by
some to come from the East, possibly from the ranks of the prostitutes.
The Mothers. Mytholological figures in Goethe's Faust, Part 2 (Act 1). Faust visits the
chthoruc "Mothers" in search of the secret that will enable him to discover Helen of
Troy.
Moulin Rouge. Well known spectacular Paris nightclub.
Munch, Edvard (1863-1944). Norwegian painter and designer; forerumler of Expres­
SIQmsm.
Munchausen (Miinchhausen), Baron Karl (1720-1797). German huntsman and soldier.
His name is proverbially associated with absurdly exaggerated adventure stories.
Murger, Henri (1822-1861). Writer who lived in poverty, supported by NervaL Wrote
pieces for the serial press that were collected in the 1848 book Scenes de la vie de Bohhne!
source for Puccini's opera La Boheme.
Murillo, Bartolome (1617-1682). Spanish pamter of the Andalusian schooL
Musard, Philippe (1793-1859), Composer famous for his dance music; popular conductor
at balls at the Opera.
Mussel, Alfred de (/810-1857). Distinguished poet and playwright of French Romanci­
CIsm.
Mutualists. Secret society of weavers in Lyons who held that the factories should be
taken over by associations of workers, operating through economic action rather than
violent revolution. Name adapted by Proudhon for doctrines of credit banking and
decentralized political organization.