Jules Allix

Jules Allix (* 1818 in Fontenay -le- Comte, † 1897 in Paris) was a French journalist and politician. He was active in the Paris Commune and was committed to socialism and women's rights. Allix but distinguished himself with bizarre views and utopian projects, presented his state of mind over and over again in question.

Alix Jules came from the highly conservative and dominated Vendée was a lawyer. His candidacy for the National Constituent Assembly after the February 1848 revolution failed. Due to its republican justified rigorous rejection of the Second Empire he was banished from France and spent eight years in Jersey, where he met Victor Hugo. It is reported that he attended séances in 1854-1855 there with table-turning and mentally ill. In 1860 he was allowed to return from exile in 1865 and 1866, he had to be treated in the asylum for the insane at Charenton. In 1871 he was elected as a representative of the eighth arrondissement of the Council of the Paris Commune, but also let these include him because of his eccentricity as a psychiatric case. His reputation as a mentally ill rescued him after the fall of the Commune possibly life, in 1876 he was dismissed a second time from the asylum of Charenton in 1879 and amnestied political. He then devoted himself to the women's organization of Maria Deraismes.

Jules Allix distinguished himself with several utopian projects. He had the idea to transform Paris into a port city on the sea, Saumur, he wanted to connect with a navigable tunnel on the Loire, the concept of perpetual motion he meant to have realized in several engines. In memory remained, not least his enthusiastic newspaper report on the Pasilalinisch - sympathetic compass, a "snail telegraph ", which was based on the mistaken notion that two snails were the occasion of their pairing a permanent, spatially unlimited telepathic connection. The astronomer Camille Flammarion designated Allix as " esprit imaginatif " ( German: " imaginative spirit " ) and " simple rêveur " ( German: "simple dreamer ").