Saint-Simonianism united these apparently alleatory workers into a group, as did the act of writing the letter, and the letter they wrote presented each of them as equal in terms of interest in Saint-Simonian doctrine.
An artisan who only identified himself as "C ..." wrote a letter to the director of Le Globe in which he included a copy of a letter written by "a young friend" who had introduced him to Saint-Simonianism, requesting Le Globe to consider publishing his friend's letter.
For workers directly involved in Saint-Simonianism, their letters were framed with a much more precise relationship between themselves as writers, their readers, and Saint-Simonian doctrine.
(53) This friendship was often cemented in Saint-Simonian workers' letters with personal statements of one's particular understanding of Saint-Simonianism. (54) In doing this, workers made writing letters to friends a self-reflective activity, socially mediated through the institution of Saint-Simonianism.
I will return to the question of women's "nature" in Saint-Simonianism.
Symbolizing the renouncement of the old world, the prise d'habit was, as Enfantin stated at trial, "le premier acte de notre culte" and a triumph of Saint-Simonianism (47: 495).
(5) Studies on Saint-Simonianism include George Weill's L'Ecole saint-simonienne: son histoire, son influence jusqu'a nos jours (Paris, 1896), D'Allemagne's Les Saint-Simoniens, and Sebastien Charlety's Histoire du Saint-Simonisme (1825-1864) (Paris: Paul Hartmann, 1931).
The Proffered Crown: Saint-Simonianism and the Doctrine of Hope.
Foundation of the SEP and Varieties of Saint-Simonianism
This discussion, which was partly a product of d'Eichthal's own organic, functionalist Saint-Simonianism, raised issues which remained current in anthropology all through the middle of the nineteenth century.
She focuses on Emile Souvestre, a writer from Brittany, who converted to Saint-Simonianism when he lived in Paris between 1826 to 1828.
Saint-Simonianism was indeed "a laboratory of invention in the nineteenth century" and a force shaping the very identity of France.