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Pierre-Joseph Pierre-Joseph A Biography George Woodcock BLACK ROSE BOOKS Montreal • New York Copyright 1987 © Black Rose Books No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the author or publisher, except for brief passages quoted by a reviewer in a newspaper or magazine. First published 1956 Second edition 1972 Black Rose Books No. P 119 Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Woodcock, George, 1912- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: a biography Bibliography: p. Includes index. ISBN-0-921689-09-8 (bound). — ISBN 0-921689-08-X (pbk.). 1. Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph), 1809-1865. 2. Socialists- -France- Biography. 3. Anarchists— France—Biography. I. Title. HB105.P78W6 1987 3.3 5'.2 C87-Q90315-2 Cover design: ZEBRE COMMUNICATIONS INC. Black Rose Books 3981 boul. St. Laurent 340 Nagel Dr. Montreal, Que. H2W 1Y5 Cheektowaga, N.Y. 14225 Canada USA Printed and bound in Quebec, Canada CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix A PERSONAL PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION xiii Part I. THE HILLS OF THE JURA 1 II. THE CRITIC OF PROPERTY 36 III. THE MAN OF AFFAIRS 71 IV. THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE 115 V. THE PRISONER 150 VI. THE PALADIN OF JUSTICE 181 VII. THE EXILE 219 VIII. THE STRICKEN YEARS 245 IX. EPILOGUE 270 BIBLIOGRAPHY TO THE FIRST EDITION 281 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SUPPLEMENT TO THE THIRD EDITION 286 INDEX 289 A CK N O W LE D G E M E N T S The completion of this book would have been immeasurably more difficult had it not been for the encouragement and financial assistance given me by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation of New York, who granted me a Fellowship in 1951 for the purpose of studying Proudhon and his times. I am also gready indebted to Mile Su2anne Henneguy and Mme E. Faure-Fremiet, the granddaughters of Proudhon, for allowing me to inspect Proudhon’s manuscript diaries and other documents in their possession and for the time and patience they devoted to answering my queries. Among the French students of Proudhon and of the movements influenced by him, M. l’Abbe Pierre Haubtmann, M. Alexandre Marc and M. Andre Prudhommeaux were par ticularly generous with their advice, while Mr Arthur Lehning drew my attention to material on Proudhon in the collections of the International Institute for Social History. Finally, throughout the preparation of this book my wife rendered invaluable assistance in research, in typing and, above all, in helpful criticism. Vancouver, 1955 G. W. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and his Children by Gustave Courbet Painting in the Petit Palais, Paris
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