Alexander Herzen person

“Such brutal treatment of underlings was, according to Feydeau, quite routine (a view corroborated by Alexander Herzen’s description of a visit to the rue Laffitte in 1849):…”

“When the Russian revolutionary Alexander Herzen wished to define the bourgeoisie in 1847, he called it “a solid estate, the limits of which are the electoral property qualification below and Baron Rothschild above.”…”

“Nothing could better express how far things had come full circle than this renewed self-confidence—except perhaps the deeply paradoxical friendship which James formed in 1849 with Alexander Herzen.…”

“Herzen had left Russia for Paris in January 1847 and, after a brief trip to Italy, returned there at the height of the revolution in May 1848.…”

“Herzen had left Russia for Paris in January 1847 and, after a brief trip to Italy, returned there at the height of the revolution in May 1848.…”

“Indeed, Herzen personally financed Proudhon’s short-lived journal the Voix du Peuple to the tune of 24,000 francs while the latter was in prison.…”

“it is not wholly strange that the Rothschilds obliged him with minor banking services while he was in Italy and helped him invest some 10,000 roubles when he began to sell off his Russian property.…”

“Herzen later recalled how he made the acquaintance of Rothschild, and proposed that he should change for me two Moscow Savings Bank bonds.…”

“According to Herzen’s own account, James agreed to accept a bill drawn to the value of the anticipated mortgage and, when the Russian authorities refused to authorise the mortgage, “grew angry, and walked about the room saying: ‘No, I shan’…”

“He also recommended him to the London house, which took over his account during his long English exile.…”