Social Architecture, Or Reasons and Means for the Demolition and Reconstruction of the Social Edifice (Classic Reprint)

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For having, at Paris, taken part in the great demonstra tion of the 12th of June, 1849, when the National Assembly was invaded by the people, and when Louis Blanc and Barbes attempted to form a Provisional Government at the Hotel de Ville, the author was first imprisoned and then exiled from France by ministerial decree, under the presidency of Louis Napoleon; and the police took precautions for his safe embarkation at Boulogne for England, having previously refused him a place of refuge in any other country, although Belgium and Switzerland would have admitted him with the same facility and generosity as England; and although Ger many and Italy were at the time Open, not only to stray refu gees. But to compact legions of armed men who, starting from Paris, crossed the frontiers from France into Germany, Italy, and Poland. The author owes no grudge to France for his imprisonment and expulsion, because both of these repressive measures have been to a great extent the very means of maturing and fortifying his political and communistic ideas, the previous inculcation of which had been effected by fre quent visits to the lectures of the socialistic schools then flourishing in Paris, especially to those of the Phalanstericns.

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