(1841), dedicated to Pierre Leroux. Lahautière sympathized with the Revolution of 1848 but played no significant role in it. After the coup d'état of Louis Bonaparte in December 1851, Lahautière withdrew from politics and moved to Blois, where he practised law and published poetry. He died on 27 June 1882 at Vendôme. In his writings Lahautière combined republicanism and communism with a kind of holistic metaphysical materialism and a rudimentary class analysis of history. Works Richard Lahautière's writings are not generally available in English. A selection of his French works includes:Études et souvenirs. Poésies. Paris, Rouanet, 1840.Petit catéchisme de la réforme sociale. Senlis, 1839.Réponse Philosophique à un Article sur le Babouvisme, publié par M. Thoré, dans le Journal du peuple., Paris, 1840.Boulets rouges. (with Étienne Cabet), Paris, Fiquet, 1840.De la Loi sociale, Paris, 1841.Les Déjeuners de Pierre. Dialogues. Paris, 1841.Causerie sur Ronsard Vendôme, 1863.Élégies de Tibulle. Vendôme, 1879.Rimes détachées. Vendôme, 1881.Première jeunesse, Illusions. - Dix ans après, Désillusions. Vendôme, 1882. Sources and References Billington, J.H., Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith. New York, 1980. Bravo, G.M., Les Socialistes avant Marx. Two volumes. Paris, 1970. Hecht, J., 'French Utopian Socialists and the Population Question: "Seeking the Future City".' Population and Development Review, vol. 14, 1988, p. 49–73. Maitron, J., and C. Pennetier (ed's), Dictionnaire Biographique du Mouvement Ouvrier français. Paris, 1997. Garaudy, R., Les Sources françaises du Socialisme scientifique.'' Paris, 1948. Notes French socialists French communists Neo-Babouvism 1882 deaths 1813 births 19th-century French journalists French male journalists 19th-century male writers