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'loOn August 27, 1817, the steamship Le Genie du commerce, invented by the Marquis
de Jouffroy, had sailed the Seine between the Pont-Royal and the Pont Louis
XVI." Dllhech and d'Espezel, Ristoire de Paris, p. 359. [Ula,4]
The national workshopsl I.l.had been created according to the proposal of a moderate,
Marie, because the Revolution had guaranteed the existence
of the worker through his work, and because it was necessary to satisfy the
demands of the extremists . ... The workshops were organized, in a manner at
once democratic and militaristic, into brigades, with elected chiefs." Dubech and
d'Espezel, Ilistoire de Paris, pp. 398-399. [Ula,5]
The Saint-Simonians. " In the magnificent disorder of ideas that accompanied Romanticism,
they had grown enough, by 1830, to abandon their loft on the Rue
Taranne and to establish themselves on the Rue Taitbout. Here, they gave lectures
before an audience of young men dressed in blue and women in white with violet
scarves. They had acquired the newspaper Le Globe, and in its pages they advocated
a program of reforms . ... The government, . .. on the pretext of supporting
the emancipation of women , decided to prosecute the Saint-Simonians. They came
to the hearing in full regalia, and to the accompaniment of hunting horns. Enfantin
wore written on his chest, in large letters, the two words Le Pere, and he calmly
declared to the presiding judge that he was in fact the father of humanity. He then
tried to hypnotize the magistrates by staring into their eyes. He was sentenced to
one year in prison, which effectively put an end to these follies." Dubech and
d'Espezel, Histoire de Paris, pp. 392-393. 0 Haussmann 0 Secret Societies 0
[Ula,6]
'"Girardin published . .. a brochure with the title, "Why a Constitution?" It was
his idea that the entire French constitution should be replaced by a simple declaration
of ten lines, which . .. would be engraved on the five-franc piece." S. EngHindel'
< Geschichte de" fl'anzosischenArbeiter-Associationen (Hamburg, 1864» , vol.
4, pp. 133-134. [Ula,7]
"At the time of the Revolution, a new element began to appear in Paris: large-seale
industry. This was a consequence of the disappearance of feudal guilds; of the
l'eign of unfettered liberty that followed in their wake; and of the wars against
England, which made necessary the production of items previously procured by
import. By the end of the Empire, the evolution was complete. From the revolutionary
period on, there were factories established for the production of saltpeter,
firearms, woolen and cotton fabrics, preserved meat, and small utensils. Mechanical
spinning mills for cotton and linen were developed, with the encouragement of
Calonne, beginning in 1785; factories for the production of bronze were constructed
under Louis XVI; and chemical and dying companies were founded by the
Count d'Al'tois in Javel. Didot Saint-Leger ran a new machine for paper production
on the Rue Sainte-Anne. In 1799, Philippe Lebon received a patent. on a