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After Constant's discharge bishop Affre recommended him to his colleague in Evreux, where from February 1843 on he preached in so successful a way that his fellow ministers jealously announced the death of abbé Constant in the newspapers. Despite a swift denial another scandal couldn't be avoided, however, the bishop kept his hand upon him, and commissioned him with the realisation of a mural painting in a nunnery. At about the same time he nearly became a member of the secretive [[Rosicrucianism|Rosicrucian Order]]. Friends of his father's vouched for him, by which he might even have prospects of the rank of a Grand Master. Unfortunately nothing of that came about, and the painting too would not be finished. Because when in 1844 his second sweeping blow appeared, ''La Mère de Dieu'', his relationship with the bishop experienced a rapid deterioration, and Constant returned to Paris.

After Constant's discharge bishop Affre recommended him to his colleague in Evreux, where from February 1843 on he preached in so successful a way that his fellow ministers jealously announced the death of abbé Constant in the newspapers. Despite a swift denial another scandal couldn't be avoided, however, the bishop kept his hand upon him, and commissioned him with the realisation of a mural painting in a nunnery. At about the same time he nearly became a member of the secretive [[Rosicrucianism|Rosicrucian Order]]. Friends of his father's vouched for him, by which he might even have prospects of the rank of a Grand Master. Unfortunately nothing of that came about, and the painting too would not be finished. Because when in 1844 his second sweeping blow appeared, ''La Mère de Dieu'', his relationship with the bishop experienced a rapid deterioration, and Constant returned to Paris.

Being deeply churned up by the death of his friend Flora Tristan he published ''L'Émancipation de la femme ou le Testament de la paria'', followed a year later (1845) by his pacifist manifesto ''La Fête-Dieu ou le Triomphe de la paix religieuse''. After all, he occupied himself busily with the humanistic, and the utopian ideas of the time, particularly [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Simonianism Saint-Simonianism] and the theories of [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_fourier Charles Fourier]. Neither of them could convince him: Saint Simon teaches religion without religiousness, which he found repulsive. And Fourier's approach of man's necessity for acting out his drives he considered absurd and foolish. He was 35 now, and still his search continued.

Being deeply churned up by the death of his friend Flora Tristan he published ''L'Émancipation de la femme ou le Testament de la paria'', followed a year later (1845) by his pacifist manifesto ''La Fête-Dieu ou le Triomphe de la paix religieuse''. After all, he occupied himself busily with the humanistic, and the utopian ideas of the time, particularly [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Simonianism Saint-Simonianism] and the theories of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_fourier Charles Fourier]. Neither of them could convince him: Saint Simon teaches religion without religiousness, which he found repulsive. And Fourier's approach of man's necessity for acting out his drives he considered absurd and foolish. He was 35 now, and still his search continued.

 

 

 

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