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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.

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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. Catechism Positiviste, Préface. p. viii. NEW YORK  PUBLISHED BY CALVIN BLANCHARD, 82 NASSAU-ST. MODERN TIMES Modern Times is the eccentric but by no means inappropriate name given to one of the villages or rural settlements now beginning to grow up along the line of the Long Island Railroad, once forming part of the principal highway between the cities of New York and Boston but now, […]
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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 the social and religious anarchy of the century, and share the reflections that this sad event has engendered in me. But, above all, I must seek to destroy a calumny that all the newspapers have been pleased to repeat. All have made known, coldly citing the event, that intimate relations existed between Claire and Desessarts. For those who have sounded the depths of the human […]