Category: History - Other

La Réunion, a French Settlement in Texas

The last half of the eighteenth century was a period of awakening for the masses of western Europe; revolution thundered in Paris and reverberated throughout all Europe. Thrones tottered and fell; others rose to take their places. Republics were created by the revolutions over...

Chapters

1. Chapter VII The Breakup 107

The last half of the eighteenth century was a period of awakening for the masses of western Europe; revolution thundered in Paris and reverberated throughout all Europe. Thrones...

2. CHAPTER I

La Réunion, a French settlement in Texas, was the result of the efforts and teachings of three men: Albert Brisbane, Charles François Fourier, and Victor Prosper Considerant. Th...

3. CHAPTER II

Considerant, as a leader of the Fourieristic socialists, had always refused to combine the teaching or propagandizing of the movement with any attempt to put the phalansterian o...

4. CHAPTER III

The over enthusiastic praise of Texas, its lands, its climate, and its opportunities in an economic sense should stamp Considerant as a promoter, if it were not for the caution...

5. CHAPTER IV

When Victor Prosper Considerant, the founder of La Réunion, came to Texas for the first time in 1852 he evidently met with hospitality from all the people, as his reports show n...

6. CHAPTER V

After the organization of the company in Belgium on September 26, 1854, immediate preparations were made to raise money and prepare the colonists for their emigration to America...

7. CHAPTER VI

La Réunion was located three to four miles west of the Dallas county court house near what is generally termed the "Old Fort Worth-Dallas Pike," on the south bank of the Trinity...

8. CHAPTER VII

La Réunion was a failure from the moment it started; it was never a success. Of course, a historian cannot predict what would have happened under certain given conditions, but i...

9. c. That he bought carriages and horses for himself which he did not

10. d. That he built for himself and family a cottage instead of living in

e. The horses that were lost by theft or death unnecessarily and the carriages and other equipment which soon depreciated in value because of lack of sheds, etc., the poorly con...

11. CHAPTER CCCX

Whereas, A company under the name of the European and American Colonization Society in Texas has been formed in Brussels between Victor Prosper Considerant, Allyre Bureau, Charl...

12. CHAPTER 32

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That the third section of the above entitled act be so amended that the same shall hereafter read as follows:...

13. CHAPTER I

[1]D. O. Wagner, _Social Reformers from Adam Smith to John Dewey_ (New York: 1934), 213-239. Harry W. Laidler, _Social-Economic Movements, An Historical and Comparative Survey o...

14. CHAPTER II

[1]Victor Prosper Considerant, _Au Texas_, 1st, 1-6. There are two editions of this book, and, unfortunately, notes were taken from both. The editions will be referred to as 1st...

15. CHAPTER III

[1]Considerant, _The Great West_, 27. The whole of _Au Texas_ is a defense of the colonization scheme, in which Considerant is continually reminding the colonists and those who...

16. CHAPTER IV

[11]_Austin State Gazette_, Aug. 11, 1855; Compare this article with the one written in the issue of September 22, 1855, wherein those who had suffered from persecution were adv...

17. CHAPTER V

[9]Samuel W. Geiser, "Naturalists of the Frontier," in _Southwest Review_, October, 1928-July, 1929, XIV, No. 3, 331. An adequate biography of Julien Reverchon is given in this...

18. CHAPTER VI

[1]Victor Prosper Considerant, _Au Texas, le premier Rapport a mes Amis_ (1st ed., Bruxelles, 1855), 44; _The Great West, A New Social and Industrial Life in its Fertile Regions...

19. c. Worker's Council (elected from the different groups of

20. d. In addition to these committees there were numerous minor

21. CHAPTER VII

Newspaper published in Dallas, not connected with the present paper bearing the same name. Investigated incomplete files, at the University of Texas, covering the period from Ju...