Zoé de Gamond

[1] Her mother, Elisabeth-Angélique de Ladoz, was of noble origin and held regular salons through which Zoé became active in politics.

[2] Originally, together with her friend Julie du Bosch, a partisan of Saint-Simon, she later abandoned his ideas for those of the utopian socialist Charles Fourier.

It was at this time that she met Polish nationalist Jan Czyński, with whom she wrote Le Roi des Paysans.

[2][3] In the late 1830s the Gattis left Brussels for Paris, where Zoé wrote a successful work, reprinted five times and translated into English, on Fourier's philosophy.

[2] She died in 1854, aged only 48, leaving two young daughters who also went on to become educationalists, Marie and Isabelle, the latter also a noted Belgian feminist.