Amand Bazard, a French carbonarist and St. Simonian, born in Paris, Sept. 19, 1791, died at Courtray, July 29, 1832. In 1818 he became the principal editor of L'Aristarque, an opposition journal. When, on the assassination of the duke of Berry in 1820, the freedom of the press was restricted, he published many pamphlets to diffuse liberal opinions among the people; and at the same time he founded the lodge of les amis de la verite, pursuing his political purposes under the cover of freemasonry. Aided by Dugied and Joubert, he organized carbonari societies, which soon numbered 200,000 members. He took part in the many conspiracies which tended to the overthrow of the Bourbon monarchy. On the discovery of the Beford military plot he was outlawed, but escaped. He afterward became one of the first disciples of St. Simon, and in 1825 one of the contributors to the Producteur. In 1828, when the St. Simonians commenced expounding their doctrines in public meetings, Bazard was with Enfantin their acknowledged head. He wished to confine the doctrines to strictly philosophical theory, and quarrelled with Enfantin, who proposed to convert them into a religious creed rejecting the ties of marriage.

In 1831 he published a manifesto charging Enfantin and his followers with planning a new social order founded upon corruption, licentiousness, and bad faith. He at the same time proclaimed himself chief of the new St. Simonian hierarchy; but the great majority of the St. Simonians adhered to Enfantin.