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Paris: Prévot and Rouanet,, 1843. Coining the slogan "workers of the world unite!" five years before the Communist Manifesto First edition of the revolutionary French socialist's most famous work, urging the working class to unite, a call for international emancipation which appeared five years before the Communist Manifesto. Tristan is "perhaps the most celebrated of all 19th-century French feminists" (Moses, p. 107). Tristan's struggles as both the poverty-stricken illegitimate daughter of a Peruvian noble and as the wife of a violently abusive husband forced her to travel at various points in her life to England (as a ladies' companion) and Peru (in the hopes of re-establishing her family ties). Upon returning to Paris in 1835 Tristan fought her husband, André Chazal, for custody of her two surviving children, and succeeded in regards to her daughter. It was not until 1836, after Chazal shot Tristan, that she was granted legal separation and the right to take back the name…