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P.-J. Proudhon, Proposal for a Society of the Perpetual Exhibition (1855)

April 18, 2024 Shawn P. Wilbur

The newest draft translation added to the New Proudhon Library project is the proposal for a Society of the Perpetual Exhibition, in answer to a call by Emperor Napoleon III for uses for the Palais de l’Industrie built in Paris for the 1855 World Fair. The project resembles Proudhon’s mutual credit proposals, as well as the various schemes for association proposed by Bellegarrigue in the 1850s. […]

Eugène de Mirecourt, “Proudhon” (1855)

January 12, 2023 Shawn P. Wilbur

In Besançon, homeland of General Moncey, the Jesuit Nonotte, the academician Suard, Charles Nodier and Victor Hugo, a male child was born on January 15, 1809. The earth trembled, the sky hid its azure. A shiver of terror shook the men. […]

Henry Edger, “Modern Times, the Labor Question and the Family” (1855)

September 19, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

ORDER AND PROGRESS — LIVE FOR OTHERS FAMILY—COUNTRY—HUMANITY MODERN TIMES, THE LABOR QUESTION, AND THE FAMILY. A Brief Statement of Facts and Principles. BY HENRY EDGER. Nothing can be destroyed but by being replaced. […]

Suzanne Voilquin, “Suicide of Claire Démar and Perret Desessarts” (1855)

January 1, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

SUICIDE of Claire Démar and Perret Desessarts. My soul painfully gripped by the dismal drama that has just played out before our eyes, I can, today, only deplore the loss of these two victims of […]