A famous but little-known work:

ISBN-13: 9786204373911 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str.

Jean Sagnes

Opis

In 1844, while he had been detained in the fort of Ham, in Picardy, since October 1840 for having, at the beginning of the same year, attempted to raise the army against the government of Louis-Philippe, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte published a brochure in Paris entitled Extinction of Pauperism. In this text, the nephew of Napoleon I and future Napoleon III set out a certain number of proposals to reduce to extinction the pauperism which, according to his own expression, struck the "working class". He was not the only one at the time to propose a programme of this type. Faced with the distressing sight of the working class districts of industrial cities, social reformers tried to find a solution that would eliminate what had recently been called "pauperism" in France, but had been known for a longer time in England.

O autorze

Sagnes, JeanJean Sagnes is an honorary university professor and former president of the University of Perpignan. He is the author of numerous works on contemporary French history, including two biographies of Napoleon III (2008) and Jaurès (2009). He has also edited an important History of trade unionism in the world from its origins to the present day (1994).