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Ganneau's "Page prophetique ' was published for the first time in 1840 and again
during the Revolution of 1848. The title page of the second edition bears the
following announcement: 'This 'Prophetic Page,' seized on July 14 1840, was
discovered by citizen Sobrier, former deputy in the Police Department in the
dossier of citizen Ganneau (The Mapah).-(The official report is labeled: 'Revolutionary
page, one of 3,500 copies distributed under carriage entrances. T' [a15,3]
Ganneau s "'Bapteme, mariage" inaugurates the era of' the Evadah, commencing
on August 15, 1838. The pamphlet is puhlishe,l at 380 Rue Saint-Denis, Passage
Lemoine. Signed: The Mapah. It proclaims: "Mary is no longer the Mother: she is
the Bride; Jesus Christ is no longer the Son: he is the Bridegroom. The old world
(of compression) is finished; the new world (of expansion) begins!" ""Mary-Eve,
female Genesiac unity" and '"Christ-Adam, male Genesiac unity" appear "under
the name Androgyne Evadam." [a15,4]
"The 'Devoir Mutuel' of Lyons, which played a crucial role in the insurrections of
1831 and 1834, marks the transition from the old Mutualite to the Resistance."
Paul Louis, Histoi,re de la classe ouvrilre en France de la Revolution a nos jours
(Paris, 1927), p. 72. [aI5,5J
On May 15, 1848, revolutionary demonstration of the Paris workers for the liberation
of Poland. [aI5,6J
"'Jesus Christ . .. , who gave us no vestige of a political code, left his work incomplete."
Honore de Balzac, Le Cure de village (letter from Gerard to Grossetete),
editions Siecle, vol. 17, p. 183.19 [a15a,1]
The early inquests into workers' circumstances were conducted, for the most part,
by entrepreneurs, their agents, factory inspectors, and administrative officials.
"When the doctors and philanthropists who were conducting the inquest went to
visit the families of workers, they were generally accompanied by the entrepreneur
or his representative. Le Play, for example, advises one, when visiting the families
of workers, "to utilize the recommendation of a carefully chosen authority. ' He
counsels the adoption of utmost diplomacy in regard to individual members of the
family, and even the payment of small indemnities or the distribution of gifts: one
should 'praise with discretion the sagacity of the men, the grace of the women, the
good behavior of the children, and, in suitahle fashion, dispense little presents to
all' (Les Oltvriers europeens [Paris], vol. 1, p. 223). In the course of the detailed
critique of inquest procedures which Audiganne promotes in the discussions of his
workers' circle, Le Play is spoken of in the following terms: 'Never was a falser
path marked out, despite the best intentions. It is purely a question of the system.
A mistaken point of view, an inadequate method of observation give rise to a
wholly arbitrary train of thought having no relation at all to the reality of society
and evincing, moreover, an incorrigible propensity for despotism and rigidity'
(Audiganne, p. 61). A frequent errol' in the conduct of the inquests, according to