Richard Lahautière

Richard Lahautière
Portrait by Eugène Delacroix (1828)
BornAuguste-Richard de la Hautière
(1813-05-21)May 21, 1813
Paris, French Empire
DiedJune 27, 1882(1882-06-27) (aged 69)
Vendôme, French Republic
OccupationJournalist, poet, lawyer
Notable worksDe la Loi sociale
Petit catéchisme de la réforme sociale

Auguste-Richard Lahautière (May 21, 1813 – June 27, 1882) (also known as Richard de la Hautière) was a French socialist, journalist, poet and lawyer. He is commonly grouped with Théodore Dézamy, Albert Laponneraye, Jean-Jacques Pillot and others as belonging to the Neo-Babouvist tendency in French nineteenth-century socialism, which formed a link from the utopian communism of Gracchus Babeuf to Marxism. He contributed to and was the editor of several important socialist publications prior to the Revolutions of 1848.