When the Theosophical Society, founded in 1875 in New-York, was established in France, it relied as shown by the historians of this occultist movement, on several networks including spiritualism. It also attracted the interest of some neo-fourierists and socialists. We shall examine this connection and try to place it in the history of French socialist movement, around La Revue socialiste which in 1885 opened its pages to this current under the influence of one of its contributors, Louis Dramard.

Denis Andro travaille dans une administration communale dans le domaine de l’intervention sociale. Il s’intéresse aux liens entre l’histoire de l’occultisme et celle du mouvement social à travers des figures investies dans les deux domaines, qui l’ont conduit à croiser les influences utopistes, notamment fouriéristes. Il a collaboré au Journal des Anthropologues, à Gavroche, au Dictionnaire biographique du fouriérisme (notice François Jollivet Castelot).