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(destroyed in 1919) took in a number of neighboring townships, such as Montmartre
and Belleville, which were not administratively attached to the capital until 1859.
[J.L.]
5. Karl Marx, The Revolutions of 1848: Political Wn'tings, vol. 1, ed. David Fembach
(London: Penguin, 1973), pp. 129-130.
First Sketches
1. Le Peril bleu (Ibe Blue Peril) was published in Paris in 1911. [R.T.]
2. Belarnin knew Carl Gustav Carus' Paris journal through excerpts in Rudolf Bor­
chardt's anthology Der Deutsche in der Landscluifi (Munich, 1927), and through tbe
texts selected by Eckart von Sydow (Leipzig, 1926); see his review of these two books
in GS, vol. 3, pp. 91-94 and 56-57. [R.T.]
3. See note 9 in Convolute D.
4. Allusion to the stabilization of the franc by Raymond Poincare inJune 1928. [J.L.]
5. 'Tbe Theatre de Comte was located in the Passage des Panoramas before being
moved to the Passage Choiseul in 1826. It combined demonstrations of physical
agility, prestidigitation, and ventriloquy with playlets performed by child actors.
[J,L.] On the shop names, see below, EO,5,
6, Jacques de Lacretelle, "Le Reveur parisien," Nouvelle Revue jTan(aise) 166 (July 1,
1927), pp. 23-39. [R.T.]
7. Benjamin this time may have in mind not the character in E. T. A. Hoffmann (see
Hl,l) but a large music hall built in 1893 on the Boulevard des Capucines. [J.L.]
8. "11,e Petit-Coblentz is the name which, during the Directory (1795-1799), was given
to a part of the Boulevard des Italiens that was frequented mainly by emigres. [J.L.]
9. The Passage du Pont-Neuf was situated between the Rue Mazarine and the Rue de
Seine, in the sixth arrondissement. The old Passage Henri IV was located near the Rue
des Bons-Enfants, in the first arrondissement, [J.L.] On Zola's Tlufrese Raquin) see
Hl,3.
10. The Passage du Bois-de-Boulogne becaule the Passage du Prado in 1929. [.J.L.]
11. Le Fant6me de l'Opera) a novel by Gaston Leroux, was published in Paris in 1910,
After EO,30, a page was cut out of the manuscript. [R.T.]
12, L'J-Iennite de la Chaussee d'Antin) au Observations sur les nweurs et les usages parisiens au
commencement du XIX' Jiecie, by Victor:JosephJouy (1764-1846), was lint published
as a newspaper serial and later collected in various book formats. The frontispiece of
the 1813 edition is a drawing of the author sitting, quill in hand, at his writing desk in
his library. Projected on the wall above him is an illuminated scene of Parisian street
life; under this drawing is the following inscription in longhand: "My cell is like a
CAMERA OBSCURA in which extelual objects are recalled,"
13. A jJiece it tiroirs is an episodic play in which the scenes unfold, one after another, like a
row of drawers opening and closing in a chest. Gutzkow's term is Sclwbladenstiick.
14, "Street lamp"; in argot, "policeman." [J.L.]
15. It was BordieT-Mareet who invented the ring-shaped, hanging lamjJe astrale) whose
light filtered down from above. [J.L.]
16. TI1e Enqclopaedia Britannica of 1875 (voL 3, p, 36) indicates that a "Mr. Va llance of
Brighton" first had the idea of utilizing the pneumatic principle-that is, a vacuum­
ulbe system-to transport passengers. Experiments were run in the 1840s. [j,L.]
17. See Rene Crevel, HI.;Esprit contre 1a raison;' Cahiers du Sud (December 1927). [J.L.]
18, See T2a,3, and the entry on Nodier in the "Guide to Names and Terms."
19. A cheval glass, or swing-mirror,
20. Compare C1,3, including note 3, and FO,10.
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