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Photo ROMEYER-DHERBEY, Gilbert. 

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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PASCAL, Joseph. 

Le Livre d'un homme de raison. 

Genève, Perret-Gentil, 1966.
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30 €

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 DE BEAUVOIR, Simone. 

DE BEAUVOIR, Simone. 

La Force des choses. 

Paris, Gallimard Nrf, 1963.
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50 €

First edition.
Common paper.

Autobiographical account of the period from the end of WWII to 1960. The story includes the time of the publication of The Second Sex, which makes her very famous, the Cold War, or the war in Algeria which she describes as a “personal drama”.

Photo [COURTOIS, Jacques]. 

[COURTOIS, Jacques]. 

L'Espoir est pour demain. 

Granville, Imprimerie granvillaise, 1950.
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90 €

First edition.
Book with subtitle: "Essay on existence: from the Universe to Man". Vast program of a philosophy of Nature and History.
Written under his pseudonym : J-A Tregastel.
Handwritten sending to Jacques Duboin (1878-1976) French economist and politician.

Photo BACHELARD, Gaston. 

BACHELARD, Gaston. 

Le Nouvel Esprit Scientifique. 

Paris, Librairie Félix Alcan, 1934.
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BRUNSCHVICG, Léon. 

Le Progrès de la conscience dans la philosophie occidentale. 

Paris, Félix Alcan, 1927.
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First edition.
Léon Brunschvicg (1869-1944) was a French philosopher, a member of the Institut, and a professor at the Sorbonne. He is a major figure in French idealism and worked on the philosophy of science and psychology. This work offers a history of Western philosophy from the perspective of the development of consciousness, from antiquity to his own time.

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BACHELARD, Gaston. 

Essai sur la connaissance approchée. 

Paris, J. Vrin, 1927.
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Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962), agrégé in philosophy and doctor of letters, was one of the greatest French philosophers of the 20th century, specializing in epistemology and the history of science. His Essai sur la connaissance approchée (Essay on Approximated Knowledge) is one of his first major works, in which he develops the notion that scientific knowledge is never absolute, but always relative and "approximated." He examines concepts from contemporary science (relativity, quantum mechanics) and defends a philosophy of the "no" that shows how new knowledge is built by breaking with previous knowledge. This book is a landmark of French epistemology.

Photo COURNOT, Antoine Augustin. 

COURNOT, Antoine Augustin. 

Essai sur les fondements de nos connaissances et sur les caracteres de la critique philosophique. 

Paris, Hachette, 1922.
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Third edition.
The work is an exploration of the philosophy of science, addressing the theory of knowledge, causality, and the role of philosophical critique. The author, Antoine Augustin Cournot, was a mathematician, economist, and philosopher. His work influenced the development of epistemology and the philosophy of probability in the 19th century.

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TANNERY, Jules. 

Science et Philosophie. 

Paris, Librairie Félix Alcan, 1912.
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Jules Tannery (1848-1910) was a French mathematician and philosopher, professor at the Sorbonne and deputy director of the École Normale Supérieure. Brother of the philosopher of science Paul Tannery, Jules was an influential educator, having trained many important mathematicians. This work, "Science and Philosophy," is a compilation of his posthumous writings, with an introductory note written by Émile Borel (1871-1956), one of his illustrious students and himself an eminent mathematician.

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OSTWALD, Wilhelm. 

Esquisse d'une Philosophie des Sciences. 

Paris, Librairie Félix Alcan, 1911.
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Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932) was a German chemist and philosopher, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909 for his work on catalysis and the study of chemical equilibria and reaction rates. He was one of the major figures in physical chemistry and a fervent defender of energism, a theory that reduced all phenomena to energy transformations. As a professor at the University of Leipzig, he exerted considerable influence. This work, "Outline of a Philosophy of Science," translated from German by M. Dorolle (Associate Professor of Philosophy), demonstrates his interest in the epistemological foundations of science. In it, he sets out his vision of science, its method, and its philosophical scope, marking an important current of thought at the beginning of the 20th century, a period of profound scientific and philosophical upheaval.

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ALHAIZA, Adolphe. 

Charles Fourier et sa sociologie sociétaire. 

Paris, Librairie Marcel Riviére, 1911.
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First edition.
Jean-Adolphe Alhaiza is a French essayist, disciple of Charles Fourier and the Societary School. Exposition of the doctrine of Charles Fourier.
"This succinct, but very accurate work, also contains an absolutely unpublished historical summary of the Societary School, from Fourier to the present day." (p.7).

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JAMES, William. 

Le Pragmatisme. 

Paris, Ernest Flammarion, 1911.
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40 €

First edition in french.
William James (1842-1910) was an influential American philosopher and psychologist, co-founder of pragmatism. A member of the Institut de France and a professor at Harvard, he is considered one of the most important thinkers of the 19th century. "Pragmatism" is one of his most famous works, synthesizing his lectures given in 1906-1907. In it, he develops the idea that the truth of an idea must be judged by its practical consequences and utility. This French edition, translated by E. Le Brun and enriched with an introduction by Henri Bergson (1859-1941), a Nobel Prize-winning French philosopher and member of the Institut, is particularly notable. Bergson's presence underscores the importance and resonance of James's pragmatism in the French philosophical context of the early 20th century.

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MACH, Ernst. 

La Connaissance et l'Erreur. 

Paris, Ernest Flammarion, 1908.
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TAINE, Hippolyte. 

De l'Intelligence. 

Paris, Hachette, 1903.
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Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893), a member of the French Academy, was a French historian, philosopher, and critic whose work had a major influence on naturalism and positivism. His work De l'Intelligence (On Intelligence) is a treatise on psychology and philosophy that explores the nature of human cognitive faculties. Taine applies a scientific and deterministic method to the study of the mind, analyzing the mechanisms of perception, memory, and ideas.
This book was a fundamental text for nascent psychology and the philosophy of science in France in the late 19th century.

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GOBLOT, Edmond. 

Essai sur la Classification des Sciences. 

Paris, Librairie Germer Baillière, 1898.
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30 €

First edition.
Edmond Goblot (1858-1935), ancien élève de l'École Normale Supérieure et agrégé de philosophie, était un philosophe et logicien français. Son Essai sur la Classification des Sciences est une contribution importante à l'épistémologie, le domaine qui étudie la connaissance scientifique. Goblot y propose un système de classification des sciences basé sur leurs méthodes et leur objet. L'ouvrage s'inscrit dans la lignée des travaux de l'épistémologie française de la fin du XIXe siècle et a influencé les réflexions sur la structure des connaissances et la méthodologie scientifique.

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THÉON DE SMYRNE. 

Exposition des connaissances mathématiques utiles pour la lecture de Platon. 

Paris, Impression anastaltique culture et civilisation, 1892 [1966].
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60 €

Reprint from 1892 edition.

Photo FENELON, François Salignac de la Mothe. 

FENELON, François Salignac de la Mothe. 

L'Education des filles. 

Paris, Jouaust librairie des bibliophiles, 1885.
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Introduction by Octave Gréard and frontispiece by Lalauze.

Photo MARION, Henri. 

MARION, Henri. 

Leçons de psychologie appliquée à l'éducation. 

Paris, Armand Colin et Cie, 1882.
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30 €

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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BOURDET, Eugène. 

Vocabulaire Des Principaux Termes de La Philosophie Positive: Avec Notices Biographiques Appartenant Au Calendrier Positiviste. 

Paris, Germer Baillière, 1875.
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100 €

First edition.
In the last quarter of the 19th century, the positivism of Auguste Comte gradually transformed into a true religion "of humanity" which rethought all the rites and structures left by the Christian church. These mutations are accompanied by a new vocabulary that Eugène Bourdet presents to us.

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SECCHI, P. Angelo. 

L'Unité des forces physiques. Essai de philosophie naturelle. 

Paris, F. Savy, 1874.
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Father Angelo Secchi (1818-1877) was an Italian Jesuit, director of the Rome Observatory, and a renowned astronomer and physicist, corresponding member of the Institute of France. His work L'Unité des forces physiques (The Unity of Physical Forces) is an essay on natural philosophy that explores the concept of unity and interconnectedness of the various forces known in physics at his time. Secchi, a pioneer in stellar spectroscopy, sought to establish a unified vision of the physical world, a central theme in 19th-century science. This second, revised and considerably augmented edition, published based on Dr. Deleschamps' Italian translation, demonstrates the interest in his ideas in France.

Photo BOUILLIER, Francisque. 

BOUILLIER, Francisque. 

Histoire de la philosophie cartésienne. 

Paris, Ch. Delagrave et Cie, 1868.
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80 €

Third edition.

Photo LAVERDANT, Gabriel-Désiré. 

LAVERDANT, Gabriel-Désiré. 

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

Paris, Vrayet de Surcy, 1860.
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200 €

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.

Photo CONSIDERANT, Victor || PROUDHON, Pierre-Joseph. 

CONSIDERANT, Victor || PROUDHON, Pierre-Joseph. 

Les Socialistes peints par eux-mêmes. 

Besançon, Imprimerie de J. Jacquin, [1848].
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300 €

First edition.
Publication, probably by the Fourierist circles of Besançon, of the public correspondence between Victor Considerant and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon who were then in full conflict in the aftermath of the 1848 revolution.

Photo CABET, Etienne. 

CABET, Etienne. 

Voyage en Icarie. 

Paris, Au Bureau du populaire, 1848.
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Fifth edition.
Major work by Cabet in which he describes his socialist utopia.
Etienne Cabet places himself alongside Charles Fourier or Robert Owen among the promoters of alternative social projects. Cabet is the first philosopher to describe himself as a communist.
In 1849, Cabet went to the United States to try to found an Icarian community there.

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.

Photo HENNEQUIN, Victor. 

HENNEQUIN, Victor. 

Les Amours au phalanstère. 

Paris, A la librairie phalanstérienne, 1847.
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800 €

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.

Photo HENNEQUIN, Victor. 

HENNEQUIN, Victor. 

Les Amours au Phalanstère. 

Paris, A la librairie Phalanstérienne, 1847.
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800 €

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 [FOURIERISME]. 

[FOURIERISME]. 

M. Victor Considérant et l'École de Fourier. 

Reims, L. Jacquet, 1846.
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First edition.
Rare offprint of an article published in the journal Champagne catholique.
This journal was created at the end of the July Monarchy to defend moral and religious interests against the anticlerical political groups that were beginning to organize. Here the article targets Fourier's system, of which Victor Considérant was then the best-known promoter.
"His ideas of association are destined, without doubt, to play an important role in the future developments of civilization; we must deplore that Fourier has cast disfavor on them, by associating them with the deepest immorality." (p.35).

Photo FENELON, François Salignac de la Mothe. 

FENELON, François Salignac de la Mothe. 

Abrégé de la vie des plus illustres philosophes de l'antiquité. 

Limoges, Barbou frères, 1846.
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Synthetic presentation of the main philosophers of antiquity and their philosophies.

Photo PASCAL, Blaise. 

PASCAL, Blaise. 

Lettres écrites à un provincial. 

Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, 1845.
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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.

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