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29. Marx, Capital, vol. 1, p. 552n.
30. "Der Urspnmg der Zeitung aus clem Geiste der Rhetorik," playing on the title of
Nietzsche's first book, Die Geburt der Tragodie aus detn Geiste der Musik.
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1. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, T7!e Holy Family, trans. Richard Dixon and Clemens
Dutt, in Marx and Engels, Collected Works, vol. 4 (New York: International Publishers,
1975), pp. 123-124.
2. Colomba (1840) is a novel by Prosper Merimee. The COlIllnendatore appears in the
final scene of Mozart's opera Don Giovanni.
3. Date of Napoleon's abdication before the Allied armies at Fontainebleau. 'The letter
that follows uses the tu fonn of address as a sign of the writer's contempt.
4, The author goes on (pp. 57-58) to describe the ((debacle" in which he was "taken,"
by a speculator dealing in rabbit fur, to the tune of 12 francs, 15 centirnes-a loss that
proves nlinolls for his £nances.
5. Honore de Balzac, 'file Maranas, trans. G. Burnham Ives ( p hiladelphia: George Barrie,
1899), p. 126.
6. The Utopian Vision qf Charles Fourier, trans. Jonathan Beecher and Richard Bienvenu
(1971; rpt. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1983) pp. 253-254.
7. Karl Marx, Capital, vol. 1, trans. Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling (1887; rpt. New
York: International Publishers, 1967), p. 24.
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1. Agnes de Miranie (1846), a drama by Franl'ois Ponsard, is about a twelfth-century
queen of France who was detln'oned on orders from Pope Innocent III. Calas (1819),
a play by Victor Ducange, concerns an eighteenth-century Huguenot executed on
false charges by an intolerant Toulouse parliament. Charles IX, ou L'Ecole des rou
(1788) is a verse tragedy by Marie:Joseph Chenier about a cowardly sixteenth-cen­
tury king; it was a favorite with revolutionary audiences.
2. Cartes de civ£rme were identity cards which the Commune's Connnittee on Public
Safety made compulsory for all citizens in May 1871, in response to heightened fears
of spies.
3. Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Leiters, trans. Wallace Fowlie (Chicago : University
of Chicago Press, 1966), p. 89 ("The Hands ofJearme-Marie").
4. It appears to have escaped Benjamin's notice that Courbet, in the caricature, is not
standing on just any broken column but on the remains of the Place Vendome
coluum, which was torn down during the Commune-an act of destruction for
which the painter was later convicted. [R.'1] See Hgure 36 in this volume.
5, A reference to the dismemberment of Poland in 1815, after the Congress ofVierma.
6. Gustav Mayer, Friedrich Engels, trans. Gilbert Highet and Helen Highet (1936; rpt.
New Yo rk: Howard Fertig, 1969), p. 220.
7. Ibid., pp. 220-221.
8. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Selected Correspondence, 3rd ed" trans. 1. Lasker
(Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1975), pp. 82-83.
9. Henrik Ibsen, Leiters and Speeches, ed. Evert Sprinchorn (New York: Hill and Wang,
1964), p. 106 (trans. Nilsen Laurvik and Mary Morison).
10. After the victory at Sedan and the capture of Napoleon III, on September 1, 1870,
Pnlssian forces advanced on Paris and, by September 23, had surrounded the cily.