Bebel and Socialism

factory, did not present an acute problem. In sum, the slow yet steady pace of change appears to have made it possible to avoid the polarization and social conflict that characterized other industrializing villages closer to Paris, such as Axgenteuil, Bezons, or Saint-Denis. The session commentator raised the intriguing question of whether the price of social peace in Bonnieres was the ostracism of the Bretons and, later, the Belgians.