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they arrived on the day before an execution and, the following morning, demonstrated
against the death penalty in front of the gallows. They embarked in Marseilles,
and worked 3S sailors aboard a merchant vessel whose second mate was
Garibaldi. . .. They slept in the Great Champ des Morts, l5 protected by cypresses
from the morning dew; they wandered through the bazaars, occasionally stopping
to preach the doctrines of Saint-Simon, speaking French to Turks who could not
understand them" (pp. 94-95). They are arrested, then released. They set their
sights on the island of Rotnma, in the South Pacific, as the place to seek the
Mother, hut they get only as far as Odessa, whence they are sent back to Turkey.
According to Maxime Du Camp, Souvenirs litteraires, vol. 2 (Paris, 1906).
[U17a,2]
" Gaudissart demanded an indemnity of five hundred francs for the week he had to
spend in boning up on the doctrine of Saint-Simon, pointing out what efforts of
memory and brain would be necessary to enable him to become thoroughly COllversant
wit.h this ar"ticle." Gaudissart canvasses for Le Globe (and Le ]ourn(tl des
enfants). H. de Balzac L'Illustre Gaudissart, ed. Calmann-Levy (Paris), p. 11.16
[VI8,1]
The Continental system" was, as it were, the first test for the example of Saint­
Simonianism. Heine (Siimtlic;'e werke [Hamburg, 1876], vol. 1, p. 155-"Franz6-
sische Zustande") calls Napoleon I a Saint-Simonian emperor. [VI8,2]
In the Saint-Simonian jacket that buttoned in back, we may discern an allusion to
the androgynous ideal of the school. But it has to be assumed that for Enfantin
himself it remained unconscious. [V18,3]
Constantin Pecqueur, adversary of the Saint-Simonians', responds "'to the question
posed in 1838 by the Academie des Sciences Morales: 'How to assess ... the
influence of the . .. currently emerging means of transportation on . .. the state of
a society ... ?'' "'The development of the railroads, at the same time that it induces
travelers to fraternize in the cars, will overexcite . .. the productive activity
of people." Pierre-Maxime Schuhl, Machinisme et philosophie (Paris 1938),
p. . [V18
The historical signature of the railroad may be found in the fact that it represents
the first means of transport-and, until the big ocean liners, no doubt also the
last-to form masses. The stage coach, the automobile, the ailplane carry pas­
sengers in small groups only. [VIS,5]
'''The anemic pallor of OUl' civilization, as monotonous as a railway line," says
Balzac. La Pealt de chagrin, ed. Flammarion (Paris), p. 4,s.lB [U18,6J