La Réunion

English

Etymology

From French La Réunion.

Proper noun

La Réunion

  1. Alternative form of Réunion.
    • 1851, “Premiums for Maritime Assurances, settled by the Assurance Brokers at Paris (February 1850)”, in The Assurance Magazine, volume I, London: Charles & Edwin Layton, […], →OCLC, page 327:
      The 15 days will count during the voyage from La Réunion to Maurice and back to La Réunion, as well as during the time not at anchor, and on the voyage from one roadstead to another of La Réunion.
    • 2004, Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau, translated by Judith Christie, “Cultural systems of representation, economic interests and French penetration into Black Africa, 1780s–1880s”, in Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau, editor, From Slave Trade to Empire: European Colonisation of Black Africa 1780s–1880s (Routledge Studies in Modern European History; 8), Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part III […], page 176:
      In Nantes, the refining of sugar was boosted by the trade with La Réunion, mainly during two decades (1840–64), before encountering real difficulties.
    • 2011 June 19, Nathalie Yonow, “Opisthobranchs from the western Indian Ocean, with descriptions of two new species and ten new records (Mollusca, Gastropoda)”, in ZooKeys, number 197, published 22 May 2012, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:
      Two species are described as new: Cyerce bourbonica sp. n. from La Réunion and Doriopsilla nigrocera sp. n. from the Persian Gulf coast of Saudi Arabia. Chromodoris cavae is removed from its synonymy with C. tennentana and redescribed from specimens from La Réunion, while several new synonyms are proposed for some commonly occurring species.
  2. (historical) A utopian socialist community formed in 1855 by primarily French, Belgian, and Swiss colonists on the south bank of the Trinity River in central Dallas County, Texas, United States.
    • 2004, Robert P. Sutton, “Utopian Socialist Communities”, in Communal Utopias and the American Experience: Secular Communities, 1824–2000, Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, →ISBN, page 46:
      Newspapers such as the Dallas Herald, the Galveston News, and the Austin Texas State Gazette and Texas State Times attacked La Réunion as a colony of foreign atheists and Communists.
    • 2015, Tilman Frasch, Terry Wyke, “Housing the Workers: Re-visiting Employer Villages in Mid-19th-century Europe”, in Juliane Czierpka, Kathrin Oerters, Nora Thorade, editors, Regions, Industries, and Heritage: Perspectives on Economy, Society, and Culture in Modern Western Europe (Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements), Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, part II […], page 182:
      His [Jean-Baptiste André Godin’s] first practical involvement in these socialist-inspired attempts to create different forms of communities came in 1855 when he helped finance La Réunion in Texas, one of the model communities in the United States.
    • 2020, James Pratt, “Gouhenant, Adolphus (ca. 1805–72)”, in Sabotaged: Dreams of Utopia in Texas, Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, Appendix (Persons and Places), pages 257–258:
      In 1848 Gouhenant led a group of sixty-two men to settle on Peters Company land in Denton County, Texas, some twenty-five miles northwest of the later La Réunion.

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