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process for producing gas lighting. From September 22 to September 30, 1798, the
first 'public exhibition of the products of French manufacturing and industry' was
held on the Champ de Mars." Dubech and d'Espezel, Histoire de Paris (Paris,
1926), p. 324. D Exhihitions 0 [U2,1]
On the Saint-Simonians: "School constituted by a veritable corps of industrial
engineers and entrepreneurs, representatives of big business underwritten by the
power of the banks." A. Pinloche, Fourier et le socialisme (Paris, 1933), p. 4,7.
[U2,2]
·'Although the worker associations were all run in exemplary fashion, ably and
honestly, ... members of the bourgeoisie were nevertheless unanimous in their
disapproval. Most of the bourgeoisie would feel a certain apprehension in passing
before one of the houses that bore the sign . . . and the emblem of a worker
association. Though these shops were distinguished from other, similar businesses
only by the inscription 'Association fraternelle d'ouvriers: Liberte, Egalite,
Fraternite,' on the petit bourgeois they had the effect of snakes in the grass that
might suddenly strike at any time. It sufficed for the bourgeois to think of the
February Revolution, which had been the origin of these associations . ... For
their part, the associations of workers made every possible effort to conciliate the
bourgeoisie, hoping to gain its support. It was for this reason that many of them
furnished their shops in the most splendid manner, so as to draw their share of
customers. The privations which the workers thus laid upon themselves, in an
effort to withstand the competition, are beyond belief. While that part of the shop
which was open to the public was fitted out in the costliest way, the worker himself
would be sitting on the floor of a workroom that often was totally lacking in equipment."
Sigmund Englander, Geschichte der franzosischen Arbeiter-Associationen
(Hamburg, 1864), vol. 3, pp. 106-108. D Secret Societies 0 [U2,3]
Influence of the feuilleton in its early days. " There are newspapers for one sou and
newspapers for ten centimes. A. dealer observes a solid bourgeois passing by, who,
after carefully perusing his Constitutionnel . .. , negligently folds it and puts it in
his pocket. The dealer accosts this plucky reader, presents him with either Le
Peuple or La Revolution, which cost only a sou, and says to him: 'Monsieur, if you
like, I will give you, in exchange for the paper you've just finished, Le Peuple, by
citizen Proudhon, and its supplement containing a serial by the famous M€mars­
Senneville. ' The hourgeois allows himself to he persuaded. What good is a Constitutionnel
you've already read? He gives up his newspaper and accepts the other,
enticed, as he is, by the sovereign name of Menars-Senneville. Often he forgets
himself, in his delight at being rid of so tedious a burden, and adds another sou
into the bargain." A. Privat d'Anglemont, Paris inconnu (Paris, 1861), pp. 155-
156. [U2a, 1]
The well-known principle of Villemessant: 'that an incident which is completely
ordinary, but which occurs on the boulevards or their envii'ons, has much more