Considerant was born to a wealthy family in Salins-les-Bains, France in 1808. La Reunion was a utopian community set up by Victor P. The Frenchmen never had sought to prevent their daughters from marrying American settlers across the river and the settlement was completely absorbed within a generation.”
By 1856 the colonists were drifting away. In time, the La Reunion colonists joined them., for their lands had been poorly chosen, the farmers were unenthusiastic and the terrain was poorly drained. One of the first activities of the colony was to found a school of vocal music, and the strains of their songs floated across the river to where a grimmer breed of men and women was pursuing the rituals of everyday existence. The government was like that of democratic Athens, by general assembly, and the only punishment ever imposed was banishment from the colony. The town was carefully built, rows of small houses around a small square. La Reunion had been founded by Victor Prosper Considerant, a wealthy Frenchman who was an ardent disciple of the outstanding 19th century Socialist, Charles Marie Fourier. June 16 – “On this day in 1855 some 200 immigrants arrived to swell the population of the newly established colony of La Reunion on the west bank of the Trinity River, near present-day Dallas. This Day in Texas ( Austin American, Austin, Texas, June 16, 1950)” View texas-newmexico-history’s profile on Tumblr.View TexasHistoryNotebook’s profile on Twitter.View Texas History Notebook’s profile on Facebook.
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