| From Utopia ... |
| Claude
Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint Simon (1760-1825) |
In 1779 Saint Simon wrote:
"Europe would be better organised if all its nations, though each
ruled by its own Parliament, recognised the supremacy of a general
Parliament; standing above all the governments and invested with the
power to decide on their disputes."
Thus, in 1814 he published a treaty entitled, De la réorganisation
de la société européenne, in which he dreamed of a politically
homogeneous Europe, all the nations of which should possess the same
institutions, relying on England to take the initiative in this federation.
Saint Simon brought in an important element: the peoples were taken
into account for the first time. The project of Saint Simon was closely
related to the Vienna Congress (1815). |
