The Arcades Project - Operi

Le Globe (October 31, 1331), with regard to the uprising in Lyons, held that a raise
in pay could place that city's industry in jeopardy: Don 't you see that ? even if a
direct intervention in the affairs of industry . .. is required of you, ... YOll cannot,
for some brief period ? alleviate the suffering of one class of soeiety without
perhaps oppressing another? Let us now commend the benefits of competition, of
that laissez-faire . .. which the liberal orators of late have once again been touting."
H.-R. d'Allemagne ? Les Saint-Simoniens (Paris, 1930), p. 14·0. [U13,9)
The Saint-Simonians : a salvation army in the midst of the bourgeoisie. [UI3a,I]
Chevalier, writing to Hoart and Bruneau, on Novemher 5, 1332: 'Listen to that
voice from Lyons! Lyons is calling you, is calling us, with a roar. Lyons is tottering.
Lyons is trembling. What energy those proletarians have! They are descendants of'
Spartacus!" Henry-Rene d'Allemagne, Les Saint-Simoniens, 1827-1837 , p. 325. [UI3a,2]
Revealing:
This people, whose head and hand you fear,
Must march, must march-no halting!
It's when you stop their steps
They notice the holes in their shoes.
Leon Halevy, "La Chaussure;' FableJ nouvelleJ (Paris, 1855), p. 133; cited in de
Liefde, Le Saint-SimoniJme dans la poiJieji'an,aiJe , p. 70.
[UI3a,3]
" Sappers of the army ofpeace"a Saint-Simonian formula for the entire corps of
workers. [UI3a,4]
A piece from Pierre Lachambeaudie's Fa bleJ et poisieJ diverseJ (Paris, 1851),
"Fumee": snl0ke from the foundry nleets with incense in the air, and they mingle
at God's behest. This conception extends forward as far as Du Camp's poem on
the locomotive, with its "sacred smoke." [U13a,5]
Le Globe-at least for a time-was distributed gratis in Paris. [UI3a.G]
"The feminine and masculine element which they discover in God, and which they
aim to revive in the priestly marriage, has not heen celehrated in the poetry of the
sect. We have found only one allusion to these doctrines . .. :
God of male and female virtue. This wodd laeks all conviction;
It yet doubts, and feels not the Father's iron affliction!
The Mother-God ahove!-will he the saving grace
That, in his joy, he'll hurry t.o emhraee!"