1. Agricol Perdiguier was a French joiner, author and politician.
27 Facts About Agricol Perdiguier
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Agricol Perdiguier was known for his writings on the compagnons, or members of workers' brotherhoods, in which he preached peaceful relations between the brotherhoods, and the intellectual and moral improvement of their members.
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Agricol Perdiguier became a deputy after the 1848 revolution, and was forced into exile after Napoleon III took power in 1851.
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Agricol Perdiguier was born in Morieres-les-Avignon, Vaucluse on 3 December 1805, the seventh of nine children.
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Agricol Perdiguier's father was a joiner and his mother a seamstress.
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Agricol Perdiguier had a basic schooling for two or three years, and learned to read, write and do arithmetic.
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Agricol Perdiguier learned French, but did not learn how to pronounce it correctly.
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Agricol Perdiguier was persecuted for having supported Napoleon during the Hundred Days although only a child of ten at the time.
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Perdiguier's father decreed that Agricol would become a carpenter when he was 13 or 14.
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Agricol Perdiguier then went to work for M Poussin, another friend of his father.
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Agricol Perdiguier undertook his tour of France from 1824 to 1828.
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Agricol Perdiguier left Avignon on 20 April 1824 bound for Marseille.
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Agricol Perdiguier became a compagnon on All Saints Day in Montpellier under the name of Avignonnais-la-vertu.
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Agricol Perdiguier was elected a full compagnon in Chartres, then a first compagnon in Lyon on Christmas 1827.
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Agricol Perdiguier left Lyon on 17 August 1828 after eleven months in that city, and reached Morieres on 24 August 1828.
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Agricol Perdiguier wrote about the need for reconciliation of the different societies, which were sometimes engaged in bitter and bloody fights.
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Agricol Perdiguier wanted intellectual and moral improvement of compagnons, and of the working classes in general.
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Agricol Perdiguier's message influenced writers such as George Sand and Eugene Sue.
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Agricol Perdiguier was initiated to Freemasonry on March 17,1846, at "Hospital of Palestine", a Supreme Council of France lodge in Paris.
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Agricol Perdiguier was re-elected to the Legislative Assembly on 13 March 1849.
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Agricol Perdiguier sat with the moderate left, and defended limits to the length of work days against the Conservatives.
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Agricol Perdiguier was arrested at his home, and on 9 January 1852 was expelled from the country.
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Agricol Perdiguier drafted his autobiography in Antwerp in 1852, and it was serialized in a Swiss magazine.
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Agricol Perdiguier describes the quarrels between the different brotherhoods, and gives his views on morality and politics.
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Agricol Perdiguier's account provides a valuable record of the worker's brotherhoods of the time, and has been reprinted many times.
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Agricol Perdiguier returned to France in December 1855, and opened a small bookshop in Paris.
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Agricol Perdiguier died of a stroke in Paris on 26 March 1875, in a state of destitution.