Pierre paul prudhon biography of albert
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Pierre-Paul Prudhon, ( Cluny, France, Paris), was a French painter and draftsman born the tenth son of a stonecutter in Burgundy. He began studying painting in Dijon at age sixteen. He arrived in Paris in , but his experience in Italy from to , when he absorbed the softness and sensuality of Correggios works and Leonardo da Vincis sfumato, gave his art its distinctive style. Upon his return to Paris, Prudhon enthusiastically supported the French Revolution. In Napoleon favored him with commissions for portraits, ceiling decorations, and allegorical paintings. Prudhons true genius lay in allegory; this is his empire and his true domain, Eugène Delacroix later wrote. In he gained membership in the Institute de France. An ill-fated love affair with a pupil and collaborator who committed suicide in his studio caused Prudhons depression and subsequent death. Prudhons paintings were based on classical texts and ancient prototypes, but his dreaminess and melancholy were more akin to Romanticism.
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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
French politician, philosopher, anarchist and socialist (–)
For the biography by George Woodcock, see Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (Woodcock biography).
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (,[1]; French:[pjɛʁʒozɛfpʁudɔ̃]; 15 January – 19 January ) was a French anarchist, socialist, philosopher, and economist who founded mutualist philosophy and is considered by many to be the "father of anarchism".[2] He was the first person to call himself an anarchist,[3][4] using that term, and is widely regarded as one of anarchism's most influential theorists. Proudhon became a member of the French Parliament after the Revolution of , whereafter he referred to himself as a federalist.[5] Proudhon described the liberty he pursued as the synthesis of community and individualism. Some consider his mutualism to be part of individualist anarchism[6][7] while others regard it to be part of social anarchism.[8][9][10]
Proudhon, who was born in Besançon, was a printer who taught himself Latin in order to better print books in the language. His best-known assertion is that "property is theft!", contained in his first major work, What Is Property? Or, an Inquiry into the Prin