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The Saint-Simonians looked for a female messiah (La Mere), who was to marry
with their high priest, Le Pere. [U14a,4]
"Le pere Olinde : . .. If you are a Saint-Simonian woman, be advised
that it is not the republic that we want. m Firmin Maillard, La Legende de la
femme emancipee (Paris), p. Ill. (U14a,5]
Heine dedicated Deutschland to Enfantin. Enfantin responded with a letter that
was published in 1835, by Duguet, in a reprint, Heine a Prosper Enfautin, en
Egypt, whose jaeket hore the line De l'Allemagne.-8" M. Piece 3319 . The letter admonishes Heine to temper his sarcasm,
above all in things religious. Heine should write books not. about German
thought but rather about the German reality, the heart of Germany-whieh, for
Enfantin, was essentially an idyll. (U14a,6]
The conversion of Julie Fanfernot to Saint-Simonianism (she turned later to
Fourierism) was made the subject of a theatrical work by the Saint-Simonians.
Extracts from this publication, which appeared in the group's journal, are to be
found in Firmin Maillard, La Legende de la.femme emancipee (Paris), pp. 11Sff.
[Ul5,1]
Saint-Simon on the Rue Vivienne: "Dinners and evening parties followed one after
another without int.erruption . ... There were, in addition, some late-night scenes
of amorous effusion, in which certain of the guests, it is reported, . .. let themselves
be carried away in Anacreontic transports, while, from deep in his easy
chair, a calm and impassive Saint-Simon looked on, taking no part at all in the
conversation, hut nonetheless taking it all in, and preparing himself withal to
transform the human race." Firmin Maillard, La Legende de La femme emancipee
(Paris), p. 27. [Ul5,2]
Many believed that the female messiah-who, aeeording t.o Duveyrier, could issue
as well from the ranks of the prostitutes as from any other stratum of societywould
have to come from the Orient (Constantinople). Barrault and twelve comrades,
therefore, set out for Constantinople to look for " the M.other." [UIS,3]
Apropos of the schism among t.he Saint-Simonians: Bazard . .. had been mortally
wounded in eonsequence of the famous general confession, where he learned from
his wife herself that, in spite of all the sympathy . .. which she had for him, she
could never sec him come up to her without feeling an instinctive repugnance. It
was "Hercules enchained, 1 as someone had said on seeing mm struck by apoplexy."
Firmin Maillard, La Legende de lafemme emancipee (Paris), p. 35. [UIS,4]
" Everyone knows about the retreat at Menilmontant . ... There they lived in celihacy
so as to demonstrate that their ideas on marriage, and on the emancipation of