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<strong>The</strong> siege lasted until the end ofJanua.ry, when an armistice was signed, ending the<br />

Franco-Prussian War.<br />

11. In the course of "Bloody We ek" (May 21-28, 1871), the Communards resisted<br />

TIllers's forces street by street, retreating toward the heart of Paris . In their despera­<br />

tion, they executed a number of hostages, including the archbishop of Paris.<br />

12. At issue is TIllers's art collection.<br />

I [<strong>The</strong> Seine, <strong>The</strong> Oldest Paris 1<br />

1. Originally added to the temple at Luxor by Ramses II, the obelisk was installed on<br />

the Place de la Concorde in 1831. 'Dle prince de Joinville was Franc;:ois Ferdinand<br />

Philippe d'Orleans, son of Louis Philippe.<br />

2. Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, trans. Charles E. Wilbaur (1862; rpt. New York: Mod­<br />

ern Library, 1992), pp. 1100-1101.<br />

In [Idleness 1<br />

1. Plato, <strong>The</strong> Collected Dialogues, ed. Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns (New<br />

York: Pantheon, 1963), pp. 1397-1398 (Laws, 832a, trans . A.E. Taylor) .<br />

2. 'Leisure" translates Musse; "idleness" translates Mijssiggang· and "world at large"<br />

translates Lebewelt. On idleness, compareJ87a,2-3.<br />

3. Karl Marx, <strong>The</strong> Revolutions of 1848: Political Writings, vol. 1, ed. David Fembach<br />

(London: Penguin, 1973), p. 192 (from the .Neue rheinzsche

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