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In October 1843, Karl Marx and his wife Jenny von Westphalen arrived in Paris after the Prussian government had suppressed Marx's radical newspaper.

The Marx family settled in Rue Vaneau.

Marx was an admirer of Heine and his early writings show Heine's influence.

In December Heine met the Marxes and got on well with them.

He published several poems, including Die schlesischen Weber, in Marx's new journal Vorwärts (" Forwards ").

Ultimately Heine's ideas of revolution through sensual emancipation and Marx's " scientific materialism " were incompatible, but both writers shared the same negativity and lack of faith in the bourgeoisie.