Jean-Baptiste André Godin
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Jean-Baptiste André Godin was a French industrialist, writer and political theorist, and social innovator. A manufacturer of cast-iron stoves and influenced by Charles Fourier, he developed and built
Statue of Godin at Guise
Oven from Godin's company in the Open-Air Museum Roscheider Hof
Le Familistère, central court
La Réunion (Dallas)
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La Réunion was a utopian socialist community formed in 1855 by primarily French, Belgian, and Swiss colonists on the south bank of the Trinity River in central Dallas County, Texas. The colony site is
Jean-Baptiste André Godin
…and thought hard about the future of workers and their communities. He helped fund V. P. Considerant's (q.v.) 1855 utopian community in Texas, known as La Reunion, at the site of present-day Dallas. He learned by its failure, due partly to colonists ill-suited as agricultural pioneers. At the time of Godin's death…
Victor Prosper Considerant, founder and first director of the colony
La Reunion Cemetery historical marker in West Dallas
La Reunion historical marker on a golf course in Oak Cliff