Guided tour of the Familistère de Guise: Physical education or body hygiene in familiar society

Name: Guided tour of the Familistère de Guise: Physical education or body hygiene in familiar society
Start: 2023-09-16T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Le Familistère de Guise

At the Familistère, the material improvement of living conditions is the foundation of social transformation. Collective welfare provisions, such as the architecture of the Palais s…

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

Conditions

Registration on site. Several time slots during the day

Lucie Nicolas

In the Familistery, the material improvement of living conditions is the basis of social transformation. Collective welfare arrangements, such as the architecture of the Social Palace, are created with this intention. But an individual development program is also being developed. The practice of swimming in the amazing pool, gymnastics, archery, walking or dancing must strengthen and sanitize the bodies in addition to the development of minds. Duration: 45 minutes

About the location

Le Familistère de Guise

Place du Familistère - 02120 Guise

Aisne
Hauts-de-France

Etymologically «establishment where several families or individuals live together in a kind of community and find in co-operative stores what is necessary for them», builds by drawing inspiration from the phalanstery of Charles Fourier, the co-operative of Please, located in the municipality of Please, in the department of Aisne, wanted by the industrialist Jean-Baptiste André Godin for the accommodation(hosting) of its workers, is a centre of the economic and social history(story) of the XIXth and XXth centuries.