Charles Fourier

From 1791 to 1816 Fourier was employed in the cities of Paris Rouen Lyon Marseille and Bordeaux. Fourier is best remembered for his writings on a new world order based on unity of action and harmonious collaboration. Having a desire to seek knowledge in everything he could Fourier often would change business firms as well as residences in order to explore and experience new things.

Fourier's views inspired the founding of the community of Utopia Ohio as well as La Reunion near present-day Dallas Texas and several other communities within the United States of America including the North American Phalanx in Red Bank New Jersey; Brook Farm in West Roxbury Massachusetts (where Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the founders); and the Community Place and Sodus Bay Phalanx in New York State. An influential thinker some of Fourier's social and moral views held to be radical in his lifetime have become main currents in modern society.