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Less than eight years after it began, the Saint-Simonian organisation fragmented irretrievably. Money was one issue. Their social reforms and their newspaper, Le Globe, were a constant drain. They had been financed by wealthy benefactors, usually the fathers of members, who had indulged the youthful follies of their offspring. A major contributor was Gustave d’Eichthal’s father, who by the end of 1831 had donated over 100,000 francs. The increasingly controversial public image of the movement undermined his business. The Saint-Simonians had hoped that their worker hostels would be self-supporting, but the families who enlisted could make no contribution to the running costs of the hostels. The reform programme came to an end.
Chevalier to Guépin, 9 March 1833. FEnf 7687.
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Pilbeam, P. (2013). The Cost of Free Love. In: Saint-Simonians in Nineteenth-Century France. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137313966_4
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