{{Infobox writer | embed = | honorific_prefix = | name = Richard Lahautière | honorific_suffix = | image = Portrait d'Auguste-Richard de la Hautière.jpg | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = Portrait by Eugène Delacroix (1828) | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pseudonym = | birth_name = Auguste-Richard de la Hautière | birth_date = | birth_place = Paris, French Empire | death_date = | death_place = Vendôme, French Republic | resting_place = | occupation = Journalist, poet, lawyer | language = | nationality = | education = | alma_mater = | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notable_works = De la Loi socialePetit catéchisme de la réforme sociale | signature = | signature_alt = | years_active = }} Auguste-Richard Lahautière (1813–1882) (also known as Richard de la Hautière) was a French socialist, journalist, poet and lawyer. He is commonly grouped with Théodore Dézamy, Albert Laponneraye, Jean-Jacques Pillot and others as belonging to the Neo-Babouvist tendency in French nineteenth-century socialism, which formed a link from the utopian communism of Gracchus Babeuf to Marxism. He contributed to and was the editor of several important socialist publications prior to the Revolutions of 1848. Life Auguste Richard de la Hautière, who dropped his aristocratic-sounding 'de' and went by 'Richard Lahautière', was born in Paris on 21 May 1813. He was educated at the Institution Saint-Victor (now the Lycée Chaptal). In 1828 he won second prize in Latin composition and on that occasion had his portrait painted by the famous Eugène Delacroix. In 1835 he obtained a law degree and was called to the bar in Paris, but he was by then already more interested in political journalism. Lahautière had become attracted to socialist ideas as a young man. At first he was interested in Saint-Simonism. He greatly admired Pierre Leroux, a former Saint-Simonian who became a noted socialist writer in the 1830s. Lahautiére was also attracted to the communist republicanism of Philippe Buonarroti and other followers of Babeuf. In the 1830s, Lahautière contributed to the journal L'Intelligence and to Albert Laponneraye's Égalité, both devoted to the propagation of socialist, communist and republican ideas. In 1841, he founded his own paper, La Fraternité, Journal moral et politique. In 1840 he collaborated with the famous utopian communist Étienne Cabet in writing the pamphlet Boulets Rouges. His best-known work was probably De la Loi sociale