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7. Anatole France, The Garden qf Epicurus) trans. Alfred Allinson (New York: Dodd,
Mead, 1923), PI" 22-25.
8. The first passage uses the familiar fonn of the second-person dative, Dir. The other
passage, within the single quotation marks, uses the formal form, Sie.
9. As distinct from the official stockbrokers (agents de change) these 'Ioutside brokers"
(courtiers de la coulisse) were unauthorized. TI1ey took their name "from their habit of
trading on the outskirts of the Bourse crowd-the wings of a theater, in French, being
named coulisse." See William Parker, The Paris Bourse and French Finance (New Yo rk:
Columbia University Press, 1920), p. 26. Compare g3,2.
10. That is, of Napoleon, 1798-1799.
11. Marx and Engels, Collected Works, vol. 3.8, trans. Peter Ross and Betty Ross (New
York: International Publishers, 1982), p. 91 (letter of November-December 1846).
12. Compare a4,1. Neither this nor the preceding passage appears in the English transla­
tion of Mayer's biography of Engels (see note to E9a,6).
13. Siegfried Kracauer, Orpheus in Paris: Offinbach and the Paris qf His Time) trans.
Gwenda David and Eric Mosbacher (New York: Knopf, 1938), p. 254.
14. Marx, The Economic and PhilosojJhic Manuscripts q(1844) trans. Martin Milligan (New
York: International Publishers, 1964), p. 151.
15. Marx, Capital, vol. 1, trans. Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling (1887; rpt. New
York: International Publishers, 1967), PI" 450-451.
16. K.racauer, Orpheus in Paris) pp. 298, 133. Les Filles de marbre was produced in 1853;
Frolifrou) in 1869.
17. Charles J:1burier, Th e Theory qfthe Four Movements) trans. Ian Patterson (New Yo rk:
Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 148.
18. "Events," in this entry, translates Ereignisse; Icontexts of experience" translates E1'fohrungszusammenhiingen
(which suggests 'Icontinuity of experience))).
19. Johan Huizinga, The Uitning of the Middle Ages, trans. F. Hopman (1949; rpt. New
York: Anchor, 1954), p. 149.
20. Honof( de Balzac, Vle Wild Ass's Skin) trans. Herbert]. Hunt (London: Penguin,
1977), p. 23.
P [The Streets of Paris 1
1. Cited by Benjamin in Latin without source.
2. Street of Bad Boys, Sausage-Maker Sh-eet, Street of Dirty Words, Street of the Head­
less Woman, Street of the Fishing Cat, Street of the Thickset Vi llain.
3. Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, trans. Charles E. Wilbour (1862; rpt. New York: Mod­
ern Library, 1992), p. 1100.
Q [Panorama 1
1. Panoramas were introduced in France in 1799 by the American engineer Robert
Fulton. But it was a certainJaIues Thayer who, after acquiring the patent, developed
the two rotundas on the Boulevard Montmartre which were separated by the arcade
known as the Passage des Panoramas. These large circular tableaux, painted in
trompe-l'oeil and designed to be viewed from the center of the rotunda, displayed
scenes of battles and cities: "View of Paris," "Evacuation of To ulon by the English,"