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French bourgeoisie gains too much influence by constituting itseU' the Parliament,
the bureaucracy, and so on, and not, as in England, merely through commerce
and industry." Karl Marx to Friedrich Engels , London, July 27, 1854 [Karl Marx
and Friedrich Engels, Altsgewiihlte Briefe , ed. V. Adoratski (Moscow and Leningrad,
1934), p. 60]. l:' [UI6a,l]
M'tereffects of Saint-Simonianism: "'Pierre Leroux-who is represented, in engravings
of the period, with hands clasped and eyes upraised in ecstasy-did his
best to have an article on God published in I..Ia Revue des deu.x mondes . . .. We
recall that Louis Blanc delighted Ruge with a lecture attacking the atheists.
Quinet, along with Michelet, struggled furiously against the Jesuits, while privately
harboring the wish to reconcile his eompatriots with the GospeL ?? C. Bougle
Chez les prophetes socialistes (Paris, 1918), PI" 161-162.
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Heine's Deu.tschland is dedieated to Enf'antin. [UI6a,3]
Schlabrendorf reports that Saint-Simon wanted to make physics, and nothing hut
physics, the true religion. ""Teachers of religion were supposed to deliver lectures
in church on the mysteries and wonders of nature. There I imagine, they would
have set up electrical apparatus on the altar and stimulated the faithful with
galvanic batteries." CrafCustav von Schlabrend01fin Paris ilbe,. Ereignisse und
Personen seiner Zeit [in Cad Gustav Jochmann, Reliquien: Aus seinen nachgelassenen
Papieren, ed. Heinrich Zschokke vol. 1 (Hechingen, 1836), p. 146].
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Enfantin hailed the coup d'etat of Louis Napoleon as the work of providence.
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1846: enthusiastic reception, on its debut, of Felicien David's Le Desert. The
project of the Suez Canal was then the ordcr of the day. '"Its theme was a poet's
eulogy of the desert as the image of eternity, coupled with his pity for the townsman
imprisoned between stone walls." S. Kr3cauer, Jacques Offe nbach lwd das Paris
seiner Zeit (Amsterdam, 1937), p. 133. H Le Desert was parodied hy Offenhach.
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""Among the dream architecture of the Revolution, Ledoux's proje(ts occupy a
special position . ... The cuhic form of his ""House of Peace" seems legitimate to
him hecause the euhe is the symhol of justice and stahility, and, similarly, all t.hc
elemcntary forms would have appeared to him as intelligible signs of intrinsic
moment. The ville naissante, t.he city in which an exalted ... life would find its
ahode will he cir(umscrihed hy the pure contour of an ellipse . ... Concerning the
house of the new tribunal, the Pacifere, he says in his Architecture: "The building
drawn up in my imagination should he as simple as the law that will he dispensed
there. m Emil Kaufmann, Von Ledoux bis Le Corbusie,.: Ursprung und Entwicklung
del' autonomen Architektur (Vienna and Leipzig 1933), p. 32. [U1?,1]