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and simple, . .. who want to abolish marriage and the family, and lcal'ian communists,
... who wish to preserve the family and marriage, hut would do away with
secret societies, wanton violence, riots, and other such felonies." Charles Benoist,
"V Homme de 1848," part 2, Revue des deux nwndes (February 1, 1914),
pp. 638-641. [V5a,1]
In the mid·11rirties, a crisis broke out in the traditions of the journeymen and
traveling artisans. The hierarchies handed down from the time of the guilds
began to lose their authority; many of the work songs had come to seem old-fashioned.
An effort was made to elevate the intellectual and moral level of the
associations. Agricol Perdiguier put together a sort of journeyman's priruer, with
songs and didactic or devotional readings. 11ris document shows that the moribund
customs of the trade guilds were a breeding ground for secret societies.
[V5a,2]
Cenacles after 1839: La Goguette des Fils du Diable < Revels of the Sons of Satan>,
Les Communistes Materialistes . [VSa,3]
Network of wine merchants: "The current law gives them freedom, whereas the
Empire, in point of fact, had deprived them of freedom. Napoleon III looked on
the taverns as meeting places for the secret societies,' and the Code annole [a
pamphlet by Julien Gonjon, Code annote des limonadiers] accuses him of having
wanted to strike with terror,' in order to "transform three hundred thousand
inhahitants and their families into official watchmen.' Three hundred thousand
taverns-that is, political taverns (what Balzac calls the people's parliament')were
thus consolidated . . . under the July Monarchy and the government of
184.8." Maurice Talmeyr, Le Marchand de vins," Revue des deux mmules (August
15, 1898), pp. 877-878. [V5a,4]
Varia from Agricol Perdiguier, Le Livre du compagnonnage (Paris: by the author,
L840):