Charles Fourier, utopist and inventor of the system of Phalansteries (1772-1837)

The Comtois Press of the time presented Charles Fourier as "the father of anarchy and of self-government". This native of Besançon, the author of "The new industrial and societarian world" is also the inspired inventor of the phalansteries –living spaces designed for collective fulfillment. In these harmonious microsocieties, men and women lived and worked in absolute equality. This socialist philosophy baptised "Fourierisme" wad taken up enthusiastically, notably by the leading Comtois newspaper, "L'Impartial" and further by Victor Considerant, of Salins les Bains, who attempted to create phalansteries in Dallas and in Brazil.