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Bazard, Saint-Amand
(sNtämäN´ bäzär´) (KEY) , 17911832, French socialist. He founded (1818) a republican society, Les Amis de la vérité [Friends of Truth], and was a member of the Carbonari. Bazard plotted (182122) for the overthrow of the monarchy but was unsuccessful. He adopted the socialistic doctrines of Claude Henri de Saint-Simon and, with Enfantin, headed the Saint-Simonian movement until 1831.