Ma loi d'avenir

Claire Démar (c. 1799-1833) wrote My Law of the Future at the beginning of 1833. Her book appeared posthumously only the following year: on the night of August 3 to 4, 1833 she committed suicide in the company of the young Saint-Simon, Perret Desessarts.
When Claire Démar came into contact with Saint-Simonism (1832), she was a little over thirty years old - but there is no certainty about her date of birth, nor about the spelling of her name. She was engaged in organizing numerous events to raise funds, and in corresponding extensively with other Saint-Simonians. In March 1833 she published her first book - Appeal of a woman to the people on the enfranchisement of women.
She fought under the banner of emancipation. In My law of the Future she called for the "enfranchisement" of all the exploited, "emancipation for all, for slaves, proletarians, minors, large and small! She adds: "Yes, the liberation of the proletarian, of the poorest and most numerous class, is possible, I am convinced, only by the liberation of our sex. She believed that the future of women depended on a radical revolution in the domestic and social spheres. It is on the scale of everyday life that life must change. By placing the question of relations of domination and that of property at the heart of her texts, Claire Démar wanted to show that the destruction of the social edifice goes before political action. It demystifies the Three Glorious Days, revolutionary days that did not lead to anything conclusive.
She felt different from most women and men who had followed the path opened by Saint-Simon. Suzanne Voilquin, who published My Law of the Future in 1834, could not explain the suicide of Démar and Desessarts in the summer of 1833 and the "horrible pleasure in this fraternity of the grave." Although her preface praised the boldness of this "remarkable woman" she also made clear that she did not share her ideas.