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Saint-Simon, Claude-Henri de Rouvroy de, 1760–1825 (B3)
French aristocrat educated by tutors.
He fought in the American War of Independence and then in the French Revolutionary Wars when he took the name of Bonhomme. His commercial speculations reduced him to poverty but he nevertheless studied physics and attempted to formulate a theory of society. In Letters from an Inhabitant of Geneva to his Contemporaries (1803), Du Systeme Industriel (1821) and Catechisme des Industriels (1823–26) he argued for a new industrial system of military and industrial associations ruled by scientists but administered by bankers to establish full employment and equality.
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