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2. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Selected Correspondence, 3rd ed., trans. I. Lasker
(Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1975), pp. 129-130.
3. The Poems 0/ Hesiod, trans. R. M. Frazer (Nonnan: University of Oklahoma Press,
1983), p. 98.
4. Charles Baudelaire, "The Painter 0/ Modern Lift)} and Other EsJaYJ, trans. Jonathan
Mayne (1964; rpt. New York: Da Capo, 1986), pp. 36-37 (citing La Bruyere, Les
Caracteres, "Des Femmes," section 2, andJuvenal, Satire VI). Benjamin refers here to
Baudelaire's poem "I..:Amour du mensonge;' in Les Fleurs du mal.
5. The epigram quoted here is actually by Antipatros of Sidon, a Greek poet who
flourished around 120 B.C., and whose work is represented (together with that of
Antiphilos) in the Palatine Anthology, the tenth-century Byzantine compilation of
Greek poetic epigrams, of which the only manuscript was found in Count Palatine's
library in Heidelberg. It is Antipatros whom Marx cites in volume 1 of Das Kap£tal,'
see Capital, trans. Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling (1887; rpt. New York: Interna­
tional Publishers, 1967), p. 385. Aristotle's discussion of the slave as 'living instrument"
is in book 1, chapter 3 of his PoliticJ, trans. BenjaminJowett, in The Basic Works
'Ii Aristotie, ed. Richard McKeon (New York: Random House, 1941), p. 113l.
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1. In France, in dIe nineteenth century, state engineers, in charge of public works, were
distinguished from civil engineers, who were employed not by the state but by mu­
nicipalities or private individuals. [J.L.]
2. That is, "The People's Hive."
3. Ecrivai11S publics: persons who, for a fee, would write out letters and docmnents for
those who could not write.
4. On June 25, the archbishop of Paris, Monsignor Affre, was killed by a stray bullet in
the Faubourg Saint-Antoine while trying to arrange a cease fire.
5. Fifteen thousand workers confronted the Garde Nationale in the streets of Lyons, and
suffered some 600 casualties before capitulating.
6. In 1830, students of the Ecole Polyteehnique led an attack on the Swiss Guards at the
Babylone barracks and the Louvre; one student was killed.
7. Jules Miehelet, The People, trans.John P. McKay (Urbana: University oflllinois Press,
1973), p. 86.
8. In La Chartreuse d( Parme (chapter 3). For Flaubert's descriptions, see part 3, chapter
I, of L'Education sentimentale. Compare the passage by Nescio with Benjamin's idea of
'interpretation in detail" (Ausdeutung in den Einzelheiten) in N2,l.
9. See "Mutualists," in the "Guide to Names and Te nus." In response to a new law
limiting free assembly, a republican insurrection broke out, on April 13, 1834, in the
Marais district of Paris. During the quick suppression, all the occupants of a house on
the Rue Transnonain were killed by General Bugeaud's troops, an incident depicted
by Daumier in his lithograph of 1834, Rue Transnonain. See Baudelaires essay
"Qyelques caricaturistes franais," and Figure 29 in this volume.
10. Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, trans. Charles E. Wilbom (1862; rpt. New York: Mod·
ern Library, 1992), p. 1107 (re 1832).
11. Ibid., pp. 970-971 (re June 5, 1832); pp. 730-731 and 734-735 (re April 1832).
Emeute: "riot;' "disturbance."
12. Ibid., pp. 924-925.
13. Langes, perhaps a miSplint for langues, "languages."
14. Benjamin writes in English: l'selfmade-man."