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La Réunion

La Réunion proper noun: a utopian socialist community formed in 1855 by primarily French, Belgian, and Swiss colonists on the south bank of the Trinity River in central Dallas County, Texas, United States. Also the alternative form of Réunion.

Proper noun

La Réunion

  1. (historical) A utopian socialist community formed in 1855 by primarily French, Belgian, and Swiss colonists on the south bank of the Trinity River in central Dallas County, Texas, United States.
    • Newspapers such as the Dallas Herald, the Galveston News, and the Austin Texas State Gazette and Texas State Times attacked La Réunion as a colony of foreign atheists and Communists.2004, Robert P. Sutton, “Utopian Socialist Communities”, in Communal Utopias and the American Experience: Secular Communities, 1824–2000, Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, →ISBN, page 46
    • His [Jean-Baptiste André Godin’s] first practical involvement in these socialist-inspired attempts to create different forms of communities came in 1855 when he helped finance La Réunion in Texas, one of the model communities in the United States.2015, Tilman Frasch, Terry Wyke, “Housing the Workers: Re-visiting Employer Villages in Mid-19th-century Europe”, in Juliane Czierpka, Kathrin Oerters, Nora Thorade, editors, Regions, Industries, and...

Also used as

La Réunion is also the alternative form of Réunion.

Origin of La Réunion

From French La Réunion.

Questions about La Réunion

What does La Réunion mean?
La Réunion means a utopian socialist community formed in 1855 by primarily French, Belgian, and Swiss colonists on the south bank of the Trinity River in central Dallas County, Texas, United States.
What part of speech is La Réunion?
La Réunion is a proper noun.

Words near La Réunion in the dictionary

  1. La Roche-sur-Foron
  2. La Roche-sur-Yon
  3. La Rochelle
  4. La Roja
  5. La Rose
  6. La Réunion
  7. La Salette
  8. La Salle
  9. La Salle County
  10. La Selva Beach
  11. La Serena

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