Proudhon - A Biography

he would search through the city archives for a clue to the sup­ posed malediction. The curse doubtless existed only in his ecce ...

1816, were both attached to Pierre-Joseph by bonds o f close affec­ tion. The first impression he recounts o f his childhood is ...

farm near Burgille, barely twenty kilometres from Besangon, and there they retired to live off the land. A t Burgille, Pierre-Jo ...

though be learnt to read well, the only books he had encountered up to his tenth year were ‘the Gospels and the Four Aymon Broth ...

then possessed an excellent public library, and there Pierre-Joseph would read regularly. His zeal soon aroused the interest o f ...

my intelligence and illuminate my thought.’ But the illumination was not of a kind Fenelon had intended; the theologian’s ‘totte ...

parents in their misfortune. ‘N ow you should know your trade,’ his father said to him. ‘A t eighteen I was earning my bread, an ...

THE HILLS OF THE JURA when he had long left his native city, he still claimed with pride that more than a dozen o f his old work ...

angelic, so divine; what in my dreams o f love (wherein faith in God, in the immortal soul, in religious practice, mingled and c ...

theological subtleties of which, in the more direct faith of his youth, he had been unaware. ‘Soon I believed myself called upon ...

tected in his life at this time was social rather than political. During 1829 a customer of Gauthier was Charles Fourier, the fo ...

Jean-Pierre Pauthier, the sinologist, who was already preparing his book on Taoism, and with Olympe Micaud, a young Comtois poet ...

French literature o f the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Montaigne, Rabelais, Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, and to under­ ...

and your name will have its place in the annals of the nineteenth century.... Such will be your fate! Act as you like, compose l ...

a lever whose power you do not know,’ he exhorted his undecided friend. ‘Decide, make an end to it; if you wish to leave the pri ...

THE HILLS OF THE JURA oxygen, which acts as a further preservative against cholera. For the rest, do not be anxious; at its wors ...

and when Proudhon heard o f Fallot’s death, he told Weiss: ‘I felt that half o f my life and spirit had been cut off from me: I ...

‘The person I addressed was a little, chubby, plump, self-satis­ fied man, with gold-rimmed spectacles, who certainly did not se ...

call upon my black angel and defy him; I long either to be over­ come or to destroy him!’ In this condition of acute depression, ...

tion o f the ineptitude of officials and o f the natural practical abilities of the peasantry to whom he belonged. After further ...