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WRONSKI, Hoëné. 

Sept manuscrits inédits, écrits de 1803 à 1806. 

Paris, A dépot des ouvrages de l'auteur, 1879.
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First edition published after the death of Wronski.

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[VOLTAIRE]. 

Questions sur l'encyclopédie par des amateurs. 

[Neufchatel], s.n., 1771-1773.
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New expanded edition.
Little-known book by Voltaire, his Questions on the Encyclopedia having been included in the Philosophical Dictionary of the Kehl edition which now makes reference.
"This attempt with an encyclopedic vocation claims to supplement, even amend and correct the great work of the Age of Enlightenment" (Mervaud, "L’Encyclopédisme des Questions sur l’Encyclopédie de Voltaire?”).

Composite copy with volumes published from 1771 to 1773.

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[VOLTAIRE]. 

Souvenirs de Madame de Caylus. 

Amsterdam, Marc Michel Rey, 1770.
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Edition published the same year as the original edition.
Bengesco [II, pp.415-417] comments at length on the difference between this edition and that of Geneva at Robert. The text in Rey's edition goes as far as the hardback edition of the Robert edition except for the last sentence. S

ome hypotheses suggest that it was Diderot who had this Amsterdam edition published, whereas Madame de Caylus's manuscript had been passed from hand to hand for several years. However, a few rare copies have a 22-page notebook with a preface by Voltaire which is absent from our copy [cf. Bengesco].

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VIGOUREUX, Clarisse. 

Parole de Providence. 

Paris, Bossange, Novembre 1834.
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Scarce first edition of the only work by the first female disciple of Charles Fourier.
Clarisse Vigoureux (1789-1865), born Charlotte-Dorothée-Claire Gauthier, was a fervent follower of Fourier's theories: it was she who introduced Victor Considerant to Fourierism (the latter married his daughter Julie).
She put her personal fortune at the service of the Fourierist cause by financing Phalanges (the journal of Charles Fourier) and later the exile of Considerant and then their attempt to found the Réunion phalanstery in Texas. Ruined, she will end her life alone in San Antonio.

François Barrier, central personality of the Fourierist movement, he adhered to the Fourierist doctrine in 1843. He was, in 1845, one of the founders of the African Agricultural Union and became the main leader and financial supporter from the Lyon Corporate School in the 1860s.

His work responded to the Words of a Believer, published in April 1834 by Lamennais, in which he promoted violence in the service of the class struggle. Clarisse Vigoureux, deeply pacifist and feminist, will answer him:
"What is this war cry and this reverberation which has been heard on all sides? [...] I ask the stronger sex who knows how to dethrone their kings, and who, calling himself a king, does not know how to hold the reins of the world" (excerpt from the preface)
This book will be condemned by the Roman Church and put in the Index catalog on September 22, 1836.

On the false title we see. finds the following mention written in pencil : "Given by Miss Beuque to Mr Barrier. (April 1845). Aimée Beuque (1788-1871) met Charles Fourier at Clarisse Vigoureux in 1828 and immediately adhered to his ideas, she will lead the Fourierist circles of Lyon. François Barrier, professor of medicine at the Faculty of Lyon, adhered to the Fourierist doctrine in 1844.

Photo [Union agricole d'Afrique]. 

[Union agricole d'Afrique]. 

Ensemble de Documents et brochures sur le phalanstère fouriéristes d'Algerie. 

s.l., s.n., 1845-1850.
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The project of the Agricultural Union of Africa was born from the meeting of French colonial interests in Algeria and the Fourierist desire to found a community following the phalansterian principles. These interests came together in Lyon where there was an active Fourierist group with the meeting of Captain Gautier, an officer of the Army of Africa, with Miss Aimée Beuque, a convinced Fourierist.
The project of a civil joint stock company running a colony in Algeria took shape during the year 1845 and the Agricultural Union of Africa was founded in December 1845. Its goal was to experiment with the Fourierist principle of associating capital, labor and talent.
It has thirty-three members including the members of the organizing committee: Fleury Imbert, François Barrier, Felix Beuque and Sister (Aimée), Captain Gautier...
On November 8, 1846, a royal ordinance authorized the Lyon Committee to found a Civil Colonization Society on the condition that it welcome three hundred European families, at least two-thirds of whom must be of French origin. Louis Philippe allocates three thousand hectares to the Union at the foot of the hills of the Sig Valley, eighteen kilometers from the sea, on the road from Oran to Mascara.
The first settlers will settle in Algeria during the year 1847. Gradually losing the Fourierist essence of the beginning, the Sig colony will nevertheless last until the end of the 19th century.

Inthis volume, are bound a series of documents from the organizing committee of the Agricultural Union of Africa:

- Draft Statutes of a Civil Society, For the Exploitation of a Rural Property in Algeria, Lyon, Dumoulin, 1845. 23 pages.
First edition.
One of the first documents relating to the Union. It presents the draft statutes of the company before its foundation, which would not take place until the end of 1845. The document also presents the members of the organizing committee and the list of the first subscribers.

- The Agricultural Union of... Civil joint-stock company for the exploitation of a rural property in Africa, Lyon, Boitel, [1845]. 16 pages.
First edition.
Work of the organizing committee from its formation until October 25, 1845. The end of the document gives the model of the power of attorney to be sent to subscribers for the founding of the company.

- Letter of application for membership, November 1845. 3 pages
Document in civil character probably sent to the subscribers who, on the eve of the filing of the application for a concession, seek to extend the number of concessionaires from ten to twelve people.
"ten to twelve people capable by their wealth and their position of lending us effective support."

- Plan with caption, (nd). (2) folding plates.
Probably the plan of the colony as it was planned in the early days of the project. It shows an enclosure of 400x300 meters grouping together residential and manufacturing buildings.

- Contract of enrollment of associated workers, Lyon, December 15, 1846. 2 pages.
Exceptional document presenting the contract that linked the Union with the associated workers.
Our copy is completed and countersigned by Félix Beuque (member of the board of directors) and Jacob Held, a 36-year-old ploughman and shoemaker from Geneva. Jacob Held commits for one year and becomes a shareholder with 50 francs.

- Pay scale for associated workers and Supplies scale, (nd). (2) pages.
Fascinating document for understanding the internal economy of the Union. Each worker is both an employee and an associate, the salary scale is defined for all hierarchical levels.
It should be noted that while women can claim a maximum of 70% of a man's salary, they can nevertheless access the position of special director of the 1st class (highest position after the General Director). We also see that a salary of 25 francs per year is provided for children from 0 to 5 years old...
On the back, we find the rate for accommodation and full board (with different meal and accommodation options).
Thus, a Worker's Assistant (14th class) will receive 504 francs per year and will spend at least 360 francs on food and 20 francs on accommodation.

- Union Agricole d'Afrique: Extract from the statutes..., Lyon, Boitel, (nd). (4) pages.
Extracts from the statutes and subscription form published after the founding of the civil society.

- Union Agricole d'Afrique joint stock company for the founding of an agricultural and industrial commune in the Sig plain, in Algeria, province of Oran, Lyon, Boitel, (nd). 4 pages.
Prospectus presenting the company.

- Union Agricole d'Afrique joint stock company... Royal concession order. Lyon, Boitel, (nd). 4 pages.
Prospectus reproducing the royal ordinance of concession granted to the Union.

Bulletin of the Union Agricole d'Afrique :

Bulletin intended for the members of the Union to report on the progress of the project and the first steps of the colony in Algeria.
- Bulletin No. 1: 4 pages. Proof presenting handwritten corrections that will be corrected in the distributed copy. In particular, the name of the correspondent of the city of Nancy is crossed out.
- Bulletin No. 1: 4 pages. Printing distributed with the inclusion of the corrections below, a new layout and the addition of the royal ordinance of Louis Philippe granting the concession.
- List of shareholders, Year 1847: 4 pages.
- Bulletin No. 2: Statutes of the Agricultural Union of Africa. 12 pages.
- Bulletin No. 3: Report of the Board of Directors of the Agricultural Union of Africa. 30-(2) pages.
- Bulletin No. 4: 4 pages and 2 plates.
- Bulletin No. 6: Union agricole d'Afrique: Report on the administration, financial year 1847-1848
(2)-8-60 pages.
- Bulletin No. 7: Union agricole d'Afrique. 4 pages.

- Colonisation du Sig, Réponse à Mr le Maréchal Bugeaud, Oran, 1848. 4 pages. Inserted between bulletins No. 4 and No. 6.
Article taken from the Echo d'Oran in which Captain Gautier responds to Marshal Bugeaud who announced the future fall of the Union in an article in the Revue des deux mondes.

- Bulletin de l'Union du Sig. Tome premier - Septembre 1849 - Aout 1850. 282-xliv-[283-298] pages. The first xliv pages bound after page 282.
First year of publication of the Bulletin of the Union of the Sig which replaced the Bulletin of the Agricultural Union of Africa, to report to the members of the activity of the colony in Algeria.

Photo TRISTAN, Flora. 

TRISTAN, Flora. 

L'Union ouvrière. 

Paris, Chez tous les libraires, 1844.
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Flora Tristan (1803-1844), is a French socialist and feminist activist. She is a major figure of utopian socialism in the 1840s, she will take part in the first steps of internationalism. The Workers' Union is her political manifesto in which we find one of the first projects of workers' organization.
Five years before the famous "Proletarians of all countries unite" by K. Marx, Flora Tristan wrote: "Workers, you are weak and unhappy because you are divided; unite; unity is strength"
One of the first feminists of the social movement, she also affirms that woman is the proletarian of the proletarian.
Flora Tristan's work is bound at the end with 12 other Fourierist brochures:

- PELLERIN, Notice sur Charles Fourier et sur sa théorie d'association, (extrait de l'annuaire du Doubs pour 1838). 23 pages.

- CHEVALIER, Le 10 octobre à Lyon (troisième anniversaire de la mort de Ch. Fourier - Compte rendu), Cluny, Au centre de l'union phalanstérienne, 1840-1841. 33 pages.

- Ecole de Ch. Fourier, Union Phalanstérienne, sl, sd, sn. (2)-vii pages.

- AUCAIGNE, Réalisation en mode transitoire, Cluny, Au centre de l'union phalanstérienne, 1840-1841. 43-(1) pages

- PASSOT, Loi des destinées futures || Mélina B....x, La Fée Sociale, Cluny, Au centre de l'union phalanstérienne, 1840-1841. 36 pages.

- [Un Prêtre catholique romain], Accord des prophéties de l'ancien et du nouveau teastament avec la théorie sociétaire de Ch. Fourier, Cluny, Au centre de l'union phalanstérienne, 1841. 87 pages (salissures sur plusieurs feuillets).

- CHEVALIER, Les 27 et 28 aout à Cluny, Cluny, Au centre de l'union phalanstérienne, 1841. 34 pages.

- CONSIDERANT, Compte rendu de l'exposition du système sociétaire de Fourier les 18, 20, 21 et 22 février 1841 dans la salle de la société philharmonique à Dijon ( Extrait du journal de la côte d'or, revu et augmenté de notes). 24 pages.

- FESTEAU, Les Progressives, huit chansons nouvelles et inédites, Paris, Vieillot, sd. 24 pages.

- [CONSIDERANT], Petit cours de politique et d'économie sociale à l'usage des ignorants et des savants, Paris, librairie sociétaire, 1844. 72 pages.

- CONSIDERANT, Théorie du Droit de propriété et du Droit au travail,Paris, Librairie phalanstérienne, 1848. 36 pages.

- [Anonyme], Recueil des chants de l'Union industrielle dondée au Palmitar (Brésil), Lyon, Mable ainé, 1842. 11 pages.

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ROMEYER-DHERBEY, Gilbert. 

Une Trace infime d'encre pâle : six études de littérature & philosophie mêlées. 

Paris, encre marine, 2003.
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First edition.

Presentation copy to Guy Samama.

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POMPERY, Edouard (de). 

Théorie de l'association et de l'unité universelle de C. Fourier. 

Paris, Capelle, 1841.
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First edition.
Édouard de Pompéry (1812-1895), French political journalist, publicist and essayist. He worked to bring together the work of the Freemason lodges and the theories of Charles Fourier.
This work was the subject of a fierce polemic with the editors of La Phalange (the journal of the Fourierists of the First Circle). The controversy centered on the notion of free will and the ability of each individual to act or not to act on the course of things. Pompéry was accused of promoting a false doctrine, under the guise of societal theory.

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PASCAL, Joseph. 

Le Livre d'un homme de raison. 

Genève, Perret-Gentil, 1966.
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First edition..
Joseph Pascal (1886-1982) former teacher, freemason and unionist, devoted his retirement to writing books of rationalist inspiration.
Nice sending of the author to Jacques Duboin (1878-1976) French economist and politician.

Photo PASCAL, Blaise. 

PASCAL, Blaise. 

Les provinciales. 

Paris, Firmin Didot, 1819.
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PASCAL, Blaise. 

Lettres écrites à un provincial. 

Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, 1845.
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PASCAL, Blaise. 

Pensées de M. Pascal sur la religion et sur quelques autres sujets qui ont été trouvées après sa mort parmy ses papiers. 

Paris, Guillaume Desprez, 1670.
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Counterfeit of the Pensées, with the same collation of the first edition.
This edition with a slightly different title was spotted by Tchermerzine (V,71).

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OCELLUS, Lucanus. 

De la nature de l'univers Avec la Traduction Françoise & des Remarques, par M. l'Abbé Batteux. 

Paris, Saillant, 1768.
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First edition of the Batteux's translation in french. With the text in greek.
Bound after, Timée de Locres "De l'Ame du Monde" and Aristote "Lettres d'Aristote à Alexandre sur le Système du Monde", also with the translation of Batteux.

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MARTIN, Benjamin. 

Grammaire des Sciences Philosophiques, ou Analyse abrégée de la Philosophie moderne, appuyée sur les expériences. 

Paris, Briasson, 1749.
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600 €

First french edition.

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MARION, Henri. 

Leçons de psychologie appliquée à l'éducation. 

Paris, Armand Colin et Cie, 1882.
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First edition.
Henri Marion is a French philosopher, pedagogue and teacher of pedagogy. He was the first holder of a chair in educational science in Paris, in 1887.

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MALEBRANCHE, Nicolas. 

De la Recherche de la Vérité. 

Paris, Bordelet, 1749.
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During the publication of this treatise (first ed. : 1675), the first published by Malebranche, his contemporaries especially retained Cartesianism: dualism of thought and extension, rule of evidence, method using the Regulae of Descartes, influence of Dioptrics and the Treatise on Man, Cartesian physics. Even the concept of the soul, a simple occasion for the movements of the body, could be drawn from the Cartesians La Forge and Cordemoy. Malebranche still appears as one of many Cartesians trying to relate to Augustinianism. The break with Cartesianism came with the publication of Enlightenments on the Search for Truth (1678). Until then centered on man, Malebranche's thought here operates a theocentric reversal. From now on, everything starts from God. All physical relationships, like all moral values, are only the expression of an immutable Order.
Many figures in the text.

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MALEBRANCHE, Nicolas. 

Entretiens sur la Metaphysique & sur la Religion. 

Rotterdam, Reiner Leers, 1688.
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First edition.
The Entretiens sur la métaphysique et sur la religion are the most accomplished of all Malebranche's works. A true literary work, demonstrating a magnificent mastery of the art of dialogue, these fourteen conversations are a model of pedagogy.

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LOCKE, John. 

Essai philosophique concernant l'entendement humain, où l'on montre qu'elle est l'étendue de nos connoissances certaines, et la manière dont nous y parvenons. 

Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1729.
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Second edition augmented of the french translation.
Major work by John Locke in which he develops an empiricist theory of knowledge that opposes the innate ideas of Descartes.

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LEROUX, Pierre. 

Malthus et les économistes ou y aura-t-il toujours des pauvres ?. 

Boussac, Imprimerie de Pierre Leroux, 1849.
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New edition printed by the author in his printing house in Boussac.
Pierre-Henri Leroux (1797 - 1871) is an editor, philosopher, theoretician of socialism. In 1843, Leroux obtained a patent to create a printing press in Boussac, he settled there, brought his family and friends, then, over the months, disciples seduced by his theories and by the way of life of the community that he founded in this small town in Creuse.
“Yes, it is capitalist industry that kills; it is not, as Malthus says, Nature.” (p.60)

Copy which was bound for François Barrier, central personality of the Fourierist movement, he adhered to the Fourierist doctrine in 1843. He was, in 1845, one of the founders of the Phalansterian project of the African Agricultural Union and became the main leader and financial support from the Lyon School of Society in the 1850s. He created a “Fourierist” bank which notably financed the Texas phalanstery. In 1864, he left Lyon and his career as a surgeon to go to Paris to reorganize the School of Society and devote himself to writing Fourierist treatises.

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LECHEVALIER, Jules. 

Études sur la science sociale. Année 1832. Théorie de Charles Fourier. 

Paris, Librairie générale de Capelle [Renduel], 1834.
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First edition.
Jules Lechevalier Saint-André is a French utopian socialist publicist and economist. He is considered one of the pioneers of social economics. The year 1832 marks his conversion to Fourierism after having been a Saint-Simonian.

Photo [LE CLERC, Jean]. 

[LE CLERC, Jean]. 

Réflexions sur ce que l'on appelle bonheur et malheur en matière de loteries, et sur le bon usage qu'on en peut faire. 

Amsterdam, Georges Gallet, 1696.
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Jean Le Clerc (1657-1736) was a Protestant theologian and pastor. He was a member of the Remontrants, disciples of Arminius, breaking with Calvinism on questions of grace and predestination. The lottery and games of chance, then very popular in the Netherlands, were an ideal subject for reflection on these subjects. By rejecting any idea of an "invisible hand" behind chance or good fortune, he ends up with an ultimately very modern definition of chance:
"Tous ces mots ne sont que des termes négatifs, comme je l'ai dit, & qui ne servent qu'à faire comprendre que l'effet, dont on parle, n'est pas la production d'une cause nécessaire & déterminée à la produire".
In other words, we speak of chance where we do not know the sum of the causes that determine the effect that we observe.

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LAVERDANT, Gabriel-Désiré. 

Grégoire VII ou le Pape et l'Empereur au moyen âge. 

Paris, Vrayet de Surcy, 1860.
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First edition.
Presentation copy to François Barrier.
Gabriel Désiré Laverdant (1810-1884), was director of the Phalange in 1840, he was one of those Fourierists who sought the rapprochement of the Fourierist movement with the Catholics, he called himself a "phalansterian Catholic".

François Barrier, central personality of the Fourierist movement, he adhered to the Fourierist doctrine in 1843. He was, in 1845, one of the founders of the Phalansterian project of the Agricultural Union of Africa and became the main animator and financial supporter of the Societary School of Lyon in the 1850s. He created a "Fourierist" bank which would notably finance the Texas Phalanstery. In 1864, he left Lyon and his career as a surgeon to join Paris to reorganize the Societary School and devote himself to writing Fourierist treatises.

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[LAMY, François]. 

Le nouvel athéisme renversé, ou réfutation du sistême de Spinosa tirée pour la plupart de la conoissance de la nature de l'homme. 

Paris, Jean de Nully, 1696.
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Rare first edition in a morocco bilding with gilt arms on covers.

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LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, François de. 

Les Maximes de La Rochefoucauld suivies des réflexions diverses. 

Paris, Jouaust librairie des bibliophiles, 1881.
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Beautiful edition of the moralist's writings and preceded by a preface and notes by Thenard.

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HENNEQUIN, Victor. 

Les Amours au phalanstère. 

Paris, A la librairie phalanstérienne, 1847.
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First edition.
Exposition of Fourier's ideas and theories dealing with love and the regulation and organization of relations between the sexes in the Phalanstery. Each being in one of the roles defined by Fourier: the chaste Vestals, the Damsels, the Angels and the Fairies (experts in love), ... Hennequin with Fourier considers that adultery and prostitution are invariants of human societies and must therefore be organized.

Hennequin's work is bound in the penultimate position with four other Fourierist brochures:

GUEPIN. Traité d'économie sociale. Paris, sn, 1835. 108 pages.

- [Anonymous]. Catéchisme de Fourier ou Fourier réfuté par lui-même. Paris, Maison, 1841. (8)-98-(2) pages.

- Le Sept Avril. Banquets commémoratifs de la naissance de Charles Fourier - Années 1843 et 1844. Paris, À la librairie sociétaire, 1844. 36 pages.

- PELISSIER. Choix de Poésies d'un Sourd-Muet. Paris, Rue St-Jacques, sd. 72 pages.

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HENNEQUIN, Victor. 

Les Amours au Phalanstère. 

Paris, A la librairie Phalanstérienne, 1847.
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First edition.
Exposition of Fourier's ideas and theories dealing with love and the regulation and organization of relations between the sexes in the Phalanstery. Each being in one of the roles defined by Fourier: the chaste Vestals, the Damsels, the Angels and the Fairies (experts in love), ... Hennequin with Fourier considers that adultery and prostitution are invariants of human societies and must therefore be organized.

Photo [HELVETIUS, Claude-Adrien]. 

[HELVETIUS, Claude-Adrien]. 

De l'Esprit. 

Paris, Durand, 1758.
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First edition in B state.
Major work by Helvetius which caused a scandal upon its publication and was condemned to be burned. Too radical for its time, the book was nevertheless widely read thereafter.

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HAMELIN, Gabriel || LE CANU. 

Philosophia. 

[Caen], s.n., [v. 1730].
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Philosophy course given in Caen by Professor Le Canu (?) around 1730.

The writer was Gabriel François Hamelin de Préfosse (1713-1776) who was a doctor of medicine in Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue.

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GRETRY, André-Ernest. 

Mémoires ou essai sur la musique. 

Paris, Prault, 1789.
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First edition.
The Memoirs of Gretry constitute a document of particular importance for the musical and literary history of the 18th century. There are indeed many details concerning not only the life of Gretry, his feelings, his musical works, but also music in general, comedy, painting, travel .... and various writers and composers.

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GATTI DE GAMOND, Zoé. 

Réalisation d'une commune sociétaire, d'après la théorie de Charles Fourier. 

Paris, Chez l'auteur, 1840.
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First edition.
Zoé Charlotte de Gamond (1806-1854), Belgian feminist, disciple of Charles Fourier whose work she became a commentator. In September 1841, she bought a monastery in Burgundy, the famous abbey of Cîteaux, in order to establish a phalanstery there, the theoretical aspect of which she had imagined in this work. In particular, she gave a feminist tint to the theories of Charles Fourier. Fourier's "Harmony" was supposed to regenerate the condition of Women. This phalanstery, which operated until 1846, was a financial disaster. The De Gamond couple, thus ruined, returned to Brussels where they led a life of embarrassment and deprivation.

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