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newspaper. While the two were able to obtain 12,000 francs from the National Assembly to form an association of women seamstresses making ladies' underwear, Gay chose not to take part in establishing the organisation. She withdrew from activism during 1849, and by the following year was working as
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Gay lost her sight during 1890, and with her husband deceased, took the opportunity to renew her correspondence with Considerant. This ceased in mid-1891, and this may mark her death; a visit by Considerant to Brussels in November did not lead to a meeting with her, and may have represented his
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restaurants and laundries to allow women to be financially independent. Gay was unanimously elected as the women's delegate to represent the second district to the French government. National workshops were set up by the
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http://charlesfourier.fr/article.php3?id_article=65 Riot-Sarcey Michèle: La Démocratie à l’épreuve des femmes. Trois figures critiques du pouvoir, 1830-1848
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of 1855. Her husband worked as a bookseller and printer, but the controversial material he worked with forced the two into exile in
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Money from old friends enabled Gay to start a fabric shop in the rue de la Paix, and her work won a prize at the
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In 1833, Gay moved to work in England. While there, she made contact with the supporters of socialist
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which aimed to educate children from birth, but this failed, probably due to lack of capital.
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Dolores Dooley, "Equality in Community", pp. 96 - 99, Cork University Press, 1996
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H. Desroche, "Images and Echoes of Owenism in Nineteenth-century France", in:
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Désirée Véret, ou le passé retrouvé: Amour, mémoire, socialisme
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Women and Politics in the Age of the Democratic Revolution
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Members of the International Workingmen's Association
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Index

women's rights
Socialist
Jules Gay
socialist feminist
seamstress
utopian socialist
Henri de Saint-Simon
Suzanne Voilquin
Saint-Simonites
Robert Owen
Jules Gay
Anna Wheeler
Owenites
Charles Fourier
Victor Considerant
Châtillon-sous-Bagneux
February Revolution of 1848
nationalized
Luxembourg Commission
Cour des Fontaines
Jeanne Deroin
Eugenie Niboyet
Voix des Femmes
Association Mutuelle des Femmes
Exposition universelle de Paris
Brussels
International Workingmen's Association
Geneva
Turin
"Désirée Gay in "L'Opinion des Femmes," August 1848"

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