================= HES POSTING ================= Pierre Leroux may be a plausible candidate for an early French use of "socialism" - since he was a Saint-Simonian and later a member of republican secret societies, but his dates are 1797-1871, so he couldn't have originated the term in 1798. Martin Staum [log in to unmask] ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]