Phalanstère
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A phalanstère was a type of building designed for a self-contained utopian community, ideally consisting of 500–2,000 people working together for mutual benefit, and developed in the early 19th centur
Perspective view of the urban area of Fourier's Phalanstère. Rural area is not shown in the drawing.
North American Phalanx building in Monmouth County, New Jersey, inspired by Fourier's concept
Henri de Saint-Simon
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Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, better known as Henri de Saint-Simon, was a French political, economic and socialist theorist and businessman whose thought had a substantial influence o
Phalanstère
…and oppression of women. He believed gender roles could progress by shaping them within community, more than by pursuits of sexual freedom or other Simonian concepts. Fourier conceived the phalanstère as an organized building designed to integrate urban and rural features…
Posthumous portrait (1848); after Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
Henri de Saint-Simon, portrait from the first quarter of the 19th century by Godefroy Engelmann
Saint-Simon's grave in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris
Posthumous 1848 portrait by Charles Baugniet