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Adolphe Boyer, De l'Etat des ouvriers et de son amelioration par l'organisation
du travail (Paris, 1841). The author of this book was a printer. It was unsuccessful.
He commits suicide and (according to Lerminier) calls on the workers to follow
his example. The book was published in German in Strasbourg, in 1844. It was
very moderate and sought to make use of compagnonnage for worker associations.
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"Anyone who considers the harsh and burdensome life which the laboring
classes have to lead remains convinced that, among the workers, the most re­
markable men ... are not those who hurry to take up a pen ... , not those who
write, but those who act. . . . The division of labor that assigns to some men
action and to others thought is thus always in the nature of things;' Lerminier,
"De la Litterature des ouvriers;' Revue des deux mondes, 28 (paris, 1841), p. 975.
And by "action" the author means, first of all, the practice of working overtime!
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Worker associations deposited their funds in savings banks or took out treasury
bonds. Lerrninier, in "De la Litterature des ouvriers" (Revue des deux mondes
[Paris, 1841], p. 963), praises them for this. Their insurance institutions, he says
further on, lighten the load of public assistance. [a14,4]
Proudhon receives an invitation to dinner from the financier MiUaud. " Proudhon
managed to extricate himself . .. by replying that he lived entirely in the bosom of
his family and was always in bed hy nine P.M. " Firmin Maillard, La Cite des
intellectuels (Paris ?
p. 11. [a14,6]
Georg Herwegh, "'Die Epigonen von 1830," Paris, November 1341:
Away, away with the Tricolor,
Which ,vitnessed the deeds of your fathers,
And write on the gates as a warning:
"Here is Freedom's Capua!"
Georg Herwegh, Gedichte eines Lebendigen, vol. 2 (Zurich and Winterthur, 1344),
p. 15. [a14a,lJ
Heine on the hourgeoisie during the February Revolution: ""The severity with
which the people dealt with . .. thieves who were caught in the act seemed to many