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26. Paul Valery, HIstory and Politics, trans. Denise Follet and Jackson Mathews (Ptinceton:
Princeton University Press, 1962), pp. 271-272.
27. Paul Valery, Analects, trans. Stuart Gilbert (Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1970), p. 11.
28. Marcel Proust, Remembrance qfThings Past, vol. I, trans. C. K. Scott Moncrieff (New
York: Random House, 1925), pp. 489-490.
29. Ibid., p. 490.
T [Modes of Ughting]
1. "Illuminated by nocturnal torches."
2. Apparent reference to a collection of fairy tales and humor, Die blaue Bibliothek des
Feenreic/lS) der Kobolde) Zwerge und Gnomen-/ oder Deutschlands Zauhermiirchen, Herrengeschichten,
und Schwanke zu ergolzlicher und bildender Unterhaltungfor die Jugend
lind Erwacilsene (published in the 1840s).
3. The Hotel de Ville (City Hall) was the meeting place of radical republican leaders in
1848; at the end of February, immediately after the abdication of Louis Philippe,
members of the Chamber of Deputies proceeded there to join with these leaders and,
under heavy pressure from the crowd outside, to proclaim a provisional republic.
4. See "Blind Men;' in Baudelaire, Les Flew's du mal, trans. Richard Howard (Boston:
Codine, 1982), p. 97; and "My Cousin's Comer Wmdow" in E. T. A. Hoffmarm,
"7he Golden Pot" and Other Tales, trans. Ritcltie Robertson (New York: Oxford University
Press, 1992), p. 394.
5. Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Tales and Poems (New York: Modem Library, 1938),
p. 464. Poe goes on to recommend the Argand lamp.
U [Saint-Simon, Railroads]
1. Ateliers nationaux: an emergency relief agency, set up during the February Revolution
of 1848, that attracted thousands of unemployed workers from all over France; it
eventually satisfied neither radicals nor moderates and was abolished by the newly
elected conservative majority in May, without any program of public works to replace
it.
2. On Bourdin, seeJ27a,3.
3. Friedrich Engels, "Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical Gennan Philosophy;'
in Karl Mal'X and Friedrich Engels, Basic Wn"tings on Politics and Philosophy, ed. Lewis
S. Feuer (New York: Anchor, 1949), p. 205.
4. Henri Saint-Simon, Selected Writings on Science, Industry and Social Organization, trans.
Keith Taylor (New York: Hohnes and Meier, 1975), p. 210 (from L'Organisateur,
1820). On the replacement of "the government of persons ... by the administration
of things," see Friedrich Engels, "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific," in Marx and
Engels, Collected Works, vol. 24 (New York: International Publishers, 1989), p. 321
(trans. Edward Aveling).
5. Henri Saint-Simon, Selected Writings on Science, Industry and Social Organiziation,
p. 237 (from Du Systhne industriel, 1821).
6. Hemi. Saint-Simon, Social Organization, the Science qf Man, and Other W1itings, trans.
Felix Markham (1952; rpt. New York: Harper, 1964), p. 18 ("Introduction to the
Scientific Studies of the Nineteenth Century;' 1808).
7. The passage quoted by Chevalier is evidently a free rendering of one of the maxims
on industry from Benjamin Franklin's preface to the 1758 edition of his Poor Richard