biography
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Saint-Simon, Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de (Count of)
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pronunciation:
[sĩ seemõ]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1760–1825)
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| biography:
| Social reformer, the founder of French Socialism, born in Paris, France. He served in the American War of Independence, and during the French Revolution was imprisoned as an aristocrat. Lavish expenditure reduced him to poverty, and he turned to writing. His writing was a reaction against the savagery of the revolutionary period, and proclaimed a brotherhood of man in which science and technology would become a new spiritual authority. His books include Du système industriel (1821, On the Industrial System) and Nouveau christianisme (1825, New Christianity). In his later years, he relied on family and friends to survive, and lost an eye following an attempted suicide in 1823. |
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