thumb|right|210px|flora tristan, socialist writer and activist flora tristan (7 april 1803 in paris â 14 november 1844 in bordeaux, france) was a socialist writer and activist. she was one of the founders of modern feminism. she wrote several works, the best known of which are peregrinations of a pariah (1838), promenades in london (1840), and the workers' union (1843). tristan was the grandmother of the painter paul gauguin. ==family tree==              ==early life== her full name was flore-celestine-therÃ¨se-henriette tristan-moscoso. her father, mariano tristÃ¡n y moscoso,was a colonel of the spanish navy, born in arequipa, a city of peru. his family was one of the most powerful in the south of the country; his brother pÃ­o de tristÃ¡n became viceroy of peru. flora tristan's mother, anne-pierre laisnay, was french; the couple met in bilbao, spain. when her father died in 1807, before her fifth birthday, the situation of tristan and her mother changed drastically from the high standards of living they were accustomed to. in 1833 she travelled to his hometown to claim her paternal inheritance, which was in possession of an uncle. she remained in peru until 16 july 1834. though she never secured the inheritance that brought her there, tristan wrote a travel diary about her experiences during its tumultuous post-independence period. the diary was published in 1838 as pÃ©rÃ©grinations d'une paria. == the workers' union == tristan wrote this essay in 1843 after an extensive stay in peru and a short trip to britain where she produced works on the social co
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