Du Texas. Premier Rapport à Mes Amis.

£4,750 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

“I speak again, after almost three years silence, a silence compared to which death would have been sweet.” An excellent copy of this rare work . A pencilled note on the title-page indicates that this copy came from the library of Dr. Augustine Savardan (1822-1893) who practised medicine at La Réunion from 1855 to 1857. He also published an account of the colony, Un naufrage au Texas , which extremely critical of the founder, Victor Considerant (1808-1893). Considerant published his first appeal for the colony - Au Texas - in 1854. Later, expanded editions appeared the same year, as well as in German in 1855. Dated San Antonio, August 8, 1857, this is the last of these valuable reports. Here he announces - with much bitterness - the dissolution of the colony, but nonetheless calls for its continuation. Prosecuted as an accomplice in the 13 June, 1849, radical uprising in Paris, Considerant escaped and was sentenced in absentia. He travelled to Belgium and then England. A leading disciple of Charles Fourier, he resolved to apply these ideas in America. Leaving Liverpool on 1 December, 1852, he travelled to the North-American Phalanx, another colony created according to Fourier’s principles (which was then in a deplorable state). He then travelled by horseback to Texas and decided to establish a colony there. He returned to Ostend in order to raise funds for the settlement, founding the European-American Colonization Society of Texas on 26, September, 1854, in Brussells. Consid

• Year: 1857

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