Jean-Baptiste Andr Godin (26 January 1817 – 29 January 1888) was a French industrialist, writer and political theorist, and social innovator. A manufacturer of cast-iron stoves and influenced by Charles Fourier, he developed and built an industrial and residential community within Guise called the Familistre (Social Palace). He ultimately converted it to cooperative ownership and management by workers.Jean-Baptiste Andr Godin put Charles Fourier's ideas for community living into practice, building palatial collective housing for the workers at his factory.