BAZARD, AM..iND, a French socialist, was b. at Paris, 19th Sept., 1791. After the restoration he helped to found the revolutionary society of the " Friends of Virtue;" and in 1820, an association of French carbonari (q.v.), which soon had 200,000 members. He was the leading conspirator in the "plot of Befort." After some time, Bazard, impressed with the necessity of a total reconstruction of society, attached himself to the school of St. Simon. In 1825, he became one of the editors of a St. Simonian journal, termed Le Producteur. In 1828, he delivered at Paris a series of prelections on his politico-religious creed, which met with extraordinary success. His socialistic-views were afterwards published in the chef-d'iTurre of the sect, Exposition of the Doctrine of St. Simon (1828-30), of which only the first part was by Bazard, the second, containing the principles of the new social religion, being the composition of Enfantin. After the July
revolution, a larger scope was afforded to the St. Simonians. The masses were attracted by the flattering that "all social institutions ought to have for their end the moral, intellectual, and physical amelioration of the poor." In a short time, Bazard and his coadjutors had "created a new society, living in the midst of the old," with peculiar laws, manners, and doctrines. But Bazard's connection with it was of short duration. He differed from Enfantin on the doctrine of a " community of wives," and in Nov., 1831, seceded In disgust. His efforts to found a school of his own proved unsuccessful, and during a heated discussion with his former friend Enfantin, he was struck with apoplexy, from the effects of which he never recovered. He died at Courtry, near Montfermeil, on the 29th July, 1832.