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François Marie Charles Fourier

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Birthplace: Besançon, Doubs, Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France
Death: October 10, 1837 (65)
Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France
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About Charles Fourier

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François Marie Charles Fourier (/ˈfʊrieɪ, -iər/;French: [%CA%83a%CA%81l fuʁje]; 7 April 1772 – 10 October 1837) was a French philosopher, an influential early socialist thinker and one of the founders of utopian socialism. Some of Fourier's social and moral views, held to be radical in his lifetime, have become mainstream thinking in modern society. For instance, Fourier is credited with having originated the word feminism in 1837.

Fourier's social views and proposals inspired a whole movement of intentional communities. Among them in the United States were the community of Utopia, Ohio; La Reunion near present-day Dallas, Texas; Lake Zurich, Illinois; the North American Phalanx in Red Bank, New Jersey; Brook Farm in West Roxbury, Massachusetts; the Community Place and Sodus Bay Phalanx in New York State; Silkville, Kansas, and several others. In Guise, France, he influenced the Familistery of Guise. Fourier later inspired a diverse array of revolutionary thinkers and writers.

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Charles Fourier's Timeline

1772
April 7, 1772
Besançon, Doubs, Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France
1837
October 10, 1837
Age 65
Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France