Claire Charlotte Dorothée Gauthier, known as Clarisse Vigoureux, (11 June 1789 in Montagney – 13 January 1865 in San Antonio) was a French Fourierist journalist and writer.
[2] In 1834, following a "religious emotion"[3] provoked by Lamennais' book “Paroles d'un Croyant” (“Words of a Believer”), she published “Parole de Providence”, a Fourierist response to the theories of Lamennais, “in which she sees an apology for class struggle and violence that are the antithesis of the Fourierist conception of universal harmony.”[4] She then became the collaborator of her son-in-law Victor Considerant, who became the undisputed leader of the Societary School after Fourier's death.
The June 13 1849 failed insurrection against Louis Napoléon obliged Clarisse and Considerant to go into exile in Belgium.
On an invitation by Albert Brisbane and financed by Jean-Baptiste Godin among others, in 1855 they founded the Fourier-inspired colony La Réunion on the Trinity River in Texas.
[5] Although more than 350 European colonists settled in La Réunion, the experiment failed quickly and the population began disperse.