Cabet

[ ka-be ]

noun

1. É·tienne [ey-, tyen], 1788–1856, French socialist who established a utopian community in the U.S. (in Illinois) called Icaria: became U.S. citizen 1854.

Example Sentences

A generation later, a dashing French socialist named Etienne Cabet founded the Icarian Nation in Illinois.

From The Daily Beast

The society soon became involved in a controversy in which Cabet's immediate following were outnumbered.

From Project Gutenberg

Though educated for the bar, Cabet devoted himself to social and political reform.

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Cabet thereupon framed a constitution and sought the means of founding a real Icaria.

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Cabet, in Corsica, joined the radical anti-administration forces, and became a thorn in the side of the government.

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Besides all the advantages of having everything made ready to his hand, M. Cabet had a select company of colonists.

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