Jean Journet

Jean Journet , born in 1799 and died in 1861, is a utopian French being defined itself as “apostle fourierist”.

This untiring preacher furrowed the streets of Paris, traversed the France, the Belgium, but also the Texas to carry the fine words of Charles Fourier. He attended a good number of famous contemporaries like Alexandre Dumas, Georges Sand or Victor Hugo and bound a solid friendship with Gustave Courbet and Nadar.

Jean Journet carbonarist

Jean Journet was born on June 23rd, 1799 with Carcassonne (Aude). He makes studies of pharmacy in Paris then affiliates himself with the Carbonarisme. Sought, it passes in Spain and fights with dimensions of the liberals. Arréte in 1823, it is discharged and released in 1824.

Pharmacist with Limoux

Of return in France, it settles with Limoux as pharmacist. Republican, it marries Pink Ferrand into 1826 who gives him a Clara girl in 1827, and a Jules-Etienne son in 1831. He creates a company with his brothers for the exploitation of a paper mill with Brousses. He reads Saint Simon and Charles Fourier.

The meeting with Charles Fourier

Jean Journet returns visit to Charles Fourier to Paris then starts a phalansterian experiment with the Castle of Madron close to Montastruc in Haute-Garonne. He composes his first poems in 1839.

The Apostle

Decided to convert its similar to the theories of Charles Fourier, it informs apostle and Paris. It summarizes the theory of Fourier and traverses the Belgium. In March 1841, it carries out the first of its three stays with Bicêtre, then settles with its family with the phalanstery of Cîteaux which it leaves in April 1842. It continues to traverse France and Belgium while publishing a great number of small works. It binds a deep friendship with Gustave Courbet which represents it in 1850 in a work entitled the apostle Jean Journet leaving for the conquest the universal harmony (lost, there remains only one lithography about it). In 1854, it leaves to the Texas in the company Victor Considering, the Meeting. Of return in France in 1855, it goes in Suisse. In 1857, Nadar makes 4 photographs of him (only two negative remains at the Nadar bottom).

End of the adventure

Jean Journet withdraws himself in province with Foix then with Toulouse and continuous to publish works. He dies in Toulouse in November 1861

Bibliography (except poetries)

Charles Fourier, summary of his theory , Paris, 1840
Cries and sighs - 1st series, Belgium, 1840
Cries and sighs - 2nd series, Belgium, 1840
Cries and sighs - 3rd series, Paris, 1840
Cries and sighs - 4th series, 1841
Cries and sighs - 5th series, 1841
the apostle with Milord , 1841
the Good news , 1844
Jérémie in 1845 , 1844
Cry of delivery , 1846
supreme Cry , 1846
Cry of indignation , 1846
the judgment , 1847
Distress cry , 1849
Cry of pity , 1850
Cry of alarm , 1850
the year of the hello , 1851
Cry of resurrection , 1855
Cry of resurrection , 2 edition, 1856
With its majesty the Empress , 1856
apostolic Documents and prophecy , 1858
the septs clamors of the desert , 1858
past and the future , 1858
the apotheosis of the Empire , 1859
song of the martyr , 1860
peaceful Songs - 1861

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