L'Etoile du Kansas. Organe de la Republique française et universelle [Later title: L'Etoile du Kansas et de l'Iowa: Organe du Communisme libérateur des Peuples et de l'Individu] [Broken run of four issues]
- Neuchatel, KS: Jules Leroux, 1874
Neuchatel, KS: Jules Leroux, 1874. Very Good. Neuchatel, KS [and later Corning, IA]: Jules Leroux, 1874-1880. Publication sequence as follows: No. 22 (1er Aout, 1874); no. 34 (1er Juillet, 1875); T. II, no. 21 (1er Aout, 1878); and T. II, no. 45 (1er Juin, 1880). Four issues; large quartos (31.5cm); unopened self-wrappers; [8]pp. apiece, text printed in double columns. Light wear to margins, latter two issues (published in Iowa) browned due to inferior paper quality, else a Very Good, fresh and sound collection.
Four issues of this local newspaper issued out of Neuchatel, Kansas, a small village established in 1870 by French and Swiss immigrants. The paper was founded by Jules Leroux, a former deputy of the Icarian communal society. "L'Etoile" was published out of Neuchatel until 1876, when it was moved to Corning, Iowa.
The articles, all espousing a socialist ideology, are chiefly philosophical in content, and rather than cover local affairs, the author expounds on injustices further afield: the universal cruelty of the American bourgeoisie, the plight of Chinese workers in San Francisco; or a short review of the Icarian newspaper L'Observateur, also published out of Corning. Two recurring essay series include the intriguing "Dictionnaire philosophique des erreurs populaires" (Philosophical dictionary of popular mistakes) and "Fables et Contes Historiques" (Historical fables and tales).
Hoerder III, p. 101.
Four issues of this local newspaper issued out of Neuchatel, Kansas, a small village established in 1870 by French and Swiss immigrants. The paper was founded by Jules Leroux, a former deputy of the Icarian communal society. "L'Etoile" was published out of Neuchatel until 1876, when it was moved to Corning, Iowa.
The articles, all espousing a socialist ideology, are chiefly philosophical in content, and rather than cover local affairs, the author expounds on injustices further afield: the universal cruelty of the American bourgeoisie, the plight of Chinese workers in San Francisco; or a short review of the Icarian newspaper L'Observateur, also published out of Corning. Two recurring essay series include the intriguing "Dictionnaire philosophique des erreurs populaires" (Philosophical dictionary of popular mistakes) and "Fables et Contes Historiques" (Historical fables and tales).
Hoerder III, p. 101.