François-Marie-Charles Fourier, one of the most influential utopian socialists, was born on April 7, 1772 in Besançon. He was the son of Charles and Marie Muguet. His father Charles was a small businessman who ran a fabric business but had a good reputation in the town where he lived. From a young age, Fourier appreciated engineering and architectural work more than his father's commercial activity. As he did not come from a noble family, he could not pursue a career as an engineer. Mr. Victor Considerant, shares his childhood memories of Fourier, saying that his genius and his strong character were noticed very early when Fourier was only five years old. He claims that even though he was young, he judged the falsity of the commercial world and because of his outspoken nature, he was often punished by his parents. During his childhood, he was known for standing up for justice and always having consideration for smaller and weaker people. Later, when his father died, he inherited a fifth of the testimony. The property he inherited would be taken over later, after 1793, by the Republicans. Therefore, the historical event that had the most impact on his life and later on his original ideas about how the world should emerge from chaos was the French Revolution. As Fourier says in his book “Such was the first consideration which made me suspect the existence of a still unknown social science, and which excites me to attempt its discovery”. (Theory of the Four Movements). Charles Fourier was known to be a lonely, bizarre, and often crazy man due to his often vague ideas about human nature, morality, and reality. But aside from that, it's hard to dispute his genius in his writings, his visionary spirit, his original thinking, and his influence in many... middle of paper ... fear of ideas. (The Marseille block, 22). Works Cited Bowles, Robert. Charles Fourier's reaction to the French Revolution. French historical studies. Flight. 1, no. 3 (spring 1960), pp. 348-356 Fourier Charles. Theory of the Four Movements. Published in 1808. Fourier Charles. Theory of universal unity. The New Industrial and Social World. Published 1829.Goldstein F. Leslie. The first feminist themes of French utopian socialism: the Saint-Simonians and Fourier. Journal of the History of Ideas. Flight. 43, no. 1 (January - March 1982), pp. 91-108 Serenyi, Peter. Le Corbusier, Fourier and the Ema monastery. The Arts Bulletin: Vol. 49, no. 4 (December 1967), pp. 277-286 Vidler, Anthony. The new industrial world: the reconstruction of the urban utopia at the end of the 19th century in France. Outlook. Flight. 13/14, (1971), pp... 243-256