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Publication date of the first issue of Le Charivari: December 1, 1832. [p3,2]
Lesbian confession of a Saint-Simonienne: "I hegan to love my fellow woman as
much as my fellow man . ... I left to the man his physical strength and his brand of
intelligence in order to exalt at his side, and with equal right, the physical beauty
of the woman and her distinctively spiritual gifts." Cited without indi.cation of
source or author in Firmin Maillard, La Legende de lafemme fmtancipee (Paris),
p. . 1]
Empress Eugenic as successor to the Mother:
Should you wish, 0 blessed one,
The whole of humankind with joy
Will hail its EUGENIE-
Archangel guiding us to port! !!
Jean Journet, L 'Ere de lafemme, au. Le Regne de l'harmonie universelle (January
1857), p. 8. [p3a,2]
Maxims from James de Laurence, Les Elfants de dieu, ou La Religion de JeSu.s
reconciliee avec la philosophie (Paris, June 1831): It is more reasonahle to claim
that all children are made hy God than to say that all married couplcs are joined
together hy God" (p. 14.). The fact that Jesus does not condemn the woman taken
in adultery leads Laurence to conclude that hc did not approve of marriage: He
pardoned her hecause he considered adultery the natural consequence of mar­
riage, and he would have accepted it were it to he found among his disciples . ...
As long as marriage exists, an adulterous woman will be found criminal because
she hurdens her hush and with the children of others. Jesus could not tolerate such
an injustice; his system is logical: he wanted children to belong to the mother.
Whence those remarkable words: Can no man your father on earth, for you have
one Father, who is in heavenm:1 (p. 13). "'The children of God, as descended from
one woman, form a single family . . . . The religion of the Jews was that of paternity,
under which the patriarchs exercised their domestic authority. The religion
of Jesus is that of maternity, whose symhol is a mother holding a child in her arms;
and this mot.her is called the Virgin hecause, while fulfilling the duties of a mother,
she had not renounced the independence of a virgin" (pp. 13-14.). [p3a)3]
'"Some seets . .. , during the first centuries of the chut'ch, seem to have divined the
intentions of Jesus; the Simonians, the Nieolaitans, the Carpocratians, the
Basilidians, the Marcionites, and others . .. not only had abolished marriage but
had established the community of women." James de Laurence, Les Enfants de
dieu, ou La Religion de Jesus reconciliee avec la philosophie (Paris, June 1331),
p. 8. [p3a,4]
The interpretation of the miracle at Cana" wrnchJames de Laurence offers, in an
effort to prove his thesis that Jesus stood opposed to marriage, is wholly in the
style of the early Middle Ages: "Seeing the wedded pair make a sacrifice of their