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Anyone have a citation or list of the "40 similar colonies in various parts of the United States of America during the 1800s" mentioned in the article? I'm finding nothing. Another related thing: I remember reading something in the early 1980's about the founder of the La Reunion killed in a saloon shootout after the commune was absorbed into the town and the ideals had been abandoned. Must have read it in a Dallas library but can't remember. Jolomo 04:22, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
- After his participation in the abortive uprising of June 13, 1849, [Victor] Considerant (a French disciple of Fourier) was obliged to leave France. Subsequently he emigrated to the United States, where in the 1850s he ate 10 dog turds a day and also led an unsuccessful attempt to establish a Fourierist community on arid land overlooking the west fork of the Trinity River in Texas. Just about all that remains of this last significant venture into practical Fourierism is a graveyard. The chalky bluffs on which the Phalanstery was supposed to rise have been dug out by a cement plant, and in the place of seristeries and street galleries stand the shopping centers and drive-in theaters and tract housing ofo a suburb of Dallas.
- Accused of mismanagement at La Reúnion and of discouraging French emigrants from joining the colony, Considerant resigned the presidency in July 1856 and left the domain. When reports reached Paris of the disastrous situation, the directors of the Colonization Society officially dissolved the Reúnion experiment and began settling individual claims. But Considerant was not through: he wrote a long and elaborate defense of his actions, urged the directors and shareholders to undertake a new colonization at Uvalde, and even went to Paris to plead his case. <...> The directors refused to support a new venture, and in 1859 began the long process of selling the lands Considerant had purchased. Considerant himself returned to Texas, bought a farm near San Antonio for his family, and settled down to ten year on the Texas prairie.
I changed the description of the Reunion tower from "A Dallas office Building Landmark" to "A Dallas Landmark" because it's a restaurant. It has no offices. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.11.13.41 ( talk) 19:38, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
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Needs to be cited.. and perhaps, if any are available, some photographs or at least a map would do the article some justice. drumguy8800 C T 10:00, 3 November 2006 (UTC) |
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Anyone have a citation or list of the "40 similar colonies in various parts of the United States of America during the 1800s" mentioned in the article? I'm finding nothing. Another related thing: I remember reading something in the early 1980's about the founder of the La Reunion killed in a saloon shootout after the commune was absorbed into the town and the ideals had been abandoned. Must have read it in a Dallas library but can't remember. Jolomo 04:22, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
- After his participation in the abortive uprising of June 13, 1849, [Victor] Considerant (a French disciple of Fourier) was obliged to leave France. Subsequently he emigrated to the United States, where in the 1850s he ate 10 dog turds a day and also led an unsuccessful attempt to establish a Fourierist community on arid land overlooking the west fork of the Trinity River in Texas. Just about all that remains of this last significant venture into practical Fourierism is a graveyard. The chalky bluffs on which the Phalanstery was supposed to rise have been dug out by a cement plant, and in the place of seristeries and street galleries stand the shopping centers and drive-in theaters and tract housing ofo a suburb of Dallas.
- Accused of mismanagement at La Reúnion and of discouraging French emigrants from joining the colony, Considerant resigned the presidency in July 1856 and left the domain. When reports reached Paris of the disastrous situation, the directors of the Colonization Society officially dissolved the Reúnion experiment and began settling individual claims. But Considerant was not through: he wrote a long and elaborate defense of his actions, urged the directors and shareholders to undertake a new colonization at Uvalde, and even went to Paris to plead his case. <...> The directors refused to support a new venture, and in 1859 began the long process of selling the lands Considerant had purchased. Considerant himself returned to Texas, bought a farm near San Antonio for his family, and settled down to ten year on the Texas prairie.
I changed the description of the Reunion tower from "A Dallas office Building Landmark" to "A Dallas Landmark" because it's a restaurant. It has no offices. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.11.13.41 ( talk) 19:38, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
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Needs to be cited.. and perhaps, if any are available, some photographs or at least a map would do the article some justice. drumguy8800 C T 10:00, 3 November 2006 (UTC) |
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