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Pierre Leroux (1797–1871)
Leroux, Pierre (lė-rö’). A French socialist philosopher; born at Paris, 1797; died there, April 12, 1871. He was for a while an adherent of Saint-Simon, but afterward developed a humanitarian or socialistic system of his own. Its principles are expounded in ‘Equality’ (1838); ‘Refutation of Eclecticism’; ‘Humanity’ (2 vols., 1840). After the Coup d’État he was proscribed, and took up his residence in the island of Jersey; there he pursued agricultural experiments, and wrote a philosophical poem, ‘The Beach of Samarez’ (1864).