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11. GleicllSclzaltung ('alignment"-term used by the Nazis as a euphemism for the elimi­
nation of undesirable persons from public and professional life), chiming here with
Umschaltung (,Igearing') or "switching") in the preceding sentence. "Empathy" translates
Einfohlung.
12. JeanJacques Rousseau, Tile Cotifessions, trans. J. M. Cohen (Baltimore: Penguin,
1954), p. 591. The passage continues: lIThe idleness I love . . . is the idleness of a
child . ... I love ... to follow nothing but the whim of the moment:'
13. The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1857-1880, trans. Francis Steegmuller (Cambridge,
Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982), p. 24. "MOll arne est triste et j'ai Iu tous les
livres" is Belamin)s exquisite misquotation of the opcning of Mallanne's poem
"Brise marine" (see J87,5). 'Ine line from Goethe is from Faust, trans. Louis Macneice
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1952), p. 19 (part 1, line 354).
14. Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West, vol. 2, trans. Charles Francis Atkinson
(New Yo rk: Knopf, 1928), p. 100.
15. Ibid., p. 90.
p [Anthropological Materialism, History of Sects 1
1. Christian Dietrich Grabbe, Werke und Briefl, vol. 1 (Darmstadt, 1960), pp. 142ff.
[R.T.]
2. Damnier's series of forty lithographs on career women was published under the title
Les Bas-bleus in Le Charivari in 1844. It was followed by series on socialist women and
divorced women.
3. The New Oxford Annotated Bible (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977), p. 1202
(Matthew 23.9). On the woman caught in adultery, see John 8.1-11.
4. John 2.1-11.
5. Honore de Balzac, Tlte Girl witlt the Golden Eyes, trans. G. B. Ives, with Walter
Robins and E. P. Robins (philadelphia: George Barrie, 1896), p. 310. Curtius is
concerned here with the opening paragraph of Balzac's novel, in which Paris is
presented as a city of masks.
6. See Gustav Mayer, Friedrich Engels, trans. Gilbert Highet and Helen Highet (1936;
rpt. New Yo rk: Howard Fertig, 1969), pp. 14-16. The passages quoted by Benjamin
are not found in this English edition.
7. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Selected Correspondence, 3rd ed., trans. 1. Lasker
(Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1975), pp. 18-19.
8. Baudelaire as a Literary Critic, tTans. Lois Boe Hyslop and Francis E. Hyslop, Jr.
(University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1964), p. 336.
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1. See "Ecole Poly technique" in the 'IGuide to Names and Terms."
2. Jules Michelet, The People, trans.john P. McKay (Urbana: University ofIllinois Press,
1973), pp. 195-196. Reference is to the extremely severe winter of 1794-1795 (Year
III, according to the Revolutionary calendar), after the guillotining of Robespierre,
onJuly 28, 1794, had ended the Reigu of Te rror.
3. Honore de Balzac, The Country Panon, h'ans. anonymous (New Yo rk: Fred De Fau,
1923), p. 187.
4. In 1833, Thiers had presented to dIe Chamber of Deputies a project for erecting
detached forts outside the city, The proposal was abandoned; but in 1840, on ac­
count of new threats of war, a royal ordinance directed that Paris be encircled by
fortifications . TIlis project was implemented in February 1841. The resulting enceinte