The egalitarian dreams, and nightmares, of the French Revolution did not last. With a Bourbon king back on the French throne, a new generation of reformers, French and British alike, considered the nature of a society based on economic justice and cooperation. As a group they were interested in total transformation of society, without the delays of reform or the violence of revolution. Although the details of their solutions were very different, each created a blueprint for a model community and found followers eager to put his ideas into place.

