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  • Let them remind them of that Great Name which the Parisian "ouvrier" so often forgets -- of Him whose everlasting Fatherhood is the sole ground of all human brotherhood, whose wise and loving will is the sole source of all perfect order and government.

    Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847

  • POS: Parti ouvrier socialiste haïtien, Marc Antoine Poinson, Secrétaire à l'organisation des départements

    Open letter from Haiti to Barack Obama 2008

  • While tying on my bonnet, which had hitherto hung by its ribbons from my idle hand, I vaguely and momentarily wondered to hear the step of but one “ouvrier.”

    Villette 2003

  • Brousse's Le Commune et le Parti ouvrier was published.

    1880s 2001

  • The possibilists split with the Parti ouvrier at the St. - Étienne Congress (1882) and formed the Fédération des travailleurs socialistes français (1883).

    1874, Dec. 23 2001

  • Parti ouvrier français was established at the third congress of French workers (Marseilles).

    1874, Dec. 23 2001

  • They formed the Parti ouvrier socialiste révolutionnaire (1891).

    1890 2001

  • Bron, Jean, Histoire du mouvement ouvrier français.

    Léon Jouhaux - Biography 1951

  • Escaped from this dilemma, and officially recognised as _ouvrier_, it was with some surprise that I found myself dubbed gentleman at the Bureau des Affaires Etrangéres, and charged a fee of ten franca for the signature of the foreign minister.

    A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie

  • Down drops the lighted match on the neck of an _ouvrier_.

    The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX James De Mille

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