[3] He spent two years at the Reichenau institute in Graubünden, then studied mathematics at Neuchâtel before returning to Basel to help his father in his ribbon factory.

[4] According to the Reverend Frederick Monod, Among men who have had the privilege of knowing him, who does not preserve a lasting remembrance of that animated face, in which were depicted an affectionate kindness, an expansive charity, a Christian peace and joy—the work of the Holy Spirit—that nothing in the world seemed able to disturb?

[4] In Legrand's 1841 Lettre d'un industriel des montagnes des Vosges he threw down a challenge to the French leaders when he said that even England had "found that all its interests, without exception, imperiously demanded the intervention of the legislation in order to fix the age, working hours and schooling of its factory workers in order to save them from ruin and perdition.

"[6] Legrande was a believer in small-scale family industry, where children worked with their parent, and hours were shorter than was common at the time.

This would avoid the corrupting influence of the factory on children, would strengthen family bonds and would provide long-term social benefits.

[3] Legrand and Robert Owen (1771–1853) of Wales, another industrialist, advocated creation of an international organization dedicated to reform of labor laws.