The Globe, Journal of the Saint-Simonian Religion, Mon., Jan. 3, 1832.

Le Globe, Journal de la religion Saint-simonienne (The Globe, Journal of the Saint-Simonian Religion). Year VIII, No. 3. (Mon. Jan. 3, 1832) Bureaux du Globe: Paris. Softcover folio, 4 pp.

 

From its founding in 1824, The Globe newspaper was the main voice of Liberal Romanticism, well through the 'Battle of Hernani' and the July Revolution. When the paper dissolved amidst political upheavals in the wake of the Revolution, its socialist editor Pierre Leroux approached the Saint-Simonist socialist collective to buy it, and it became one of Paris' first stridently socialist (not to mention feminist) daily newspapers. As such, its emphasis was not, like many other radical journals, on expounding the movement's theories directly, but rather commenting on current events, government policy, parliamentary politics, and other practical issues from a saint-simonian perspective.  

This issue contains a transcription of the speech given at the Saint-Simonian New Years ceremony by Olinde Rodrigues, the mathematician-activist and Saint-Simonian leader who (among other things) coined the term "avant-garde" in its modern cultural sense; articles on economics and international affairs with saint-simonian commentary on the events, a series of reviews of other French socialist newspapers, a theatre review, and an essay on Saint-Simonian poetics.