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French
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Louis Auguste Bertrand (1808-1875) : Journaliste, Socialiste & Pionnier Mormon
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France
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Imprim'Ouest-Le Mans
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"Socialist, journalist, and Mormon pioneer socialist Louis Bertrand was born in 1808 in the heart of Provence. Bertrand is a man typical of the challenges of the nineteenth century. From his youth, he sailed to travel the world, from the shores of the Mediterranean to the Caribbean, Brazil to the United States of America. He then returned to the Philippines and the Indian Ocean, and even push into China. Back in France, he moved to Paris and was politically active in the Revolution of 1848. Philosophically, he was first seduced by radical Catholicism and Messianism and finally by the Icarian movement of Cabet, representative of the utopian socialism of the time. His life is suddenly changed when he meets the first Mormon missionaries in Paris. On December 1, 1850 he became one of the first French members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A few years later, he emigrated with thousands of other "saints" from Europe to the new promised land: Salt Lake City, Utah, in the heart of the Rockies. What are his experiences in the "New Zion"? How will his preaching be received, upon his return to France by the French society in general and especially its elites? Is it possible to be a Mormon and French at the same time? This biography attempts to answer these questions." [Publisher's abstract]