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two lines by Baudelaire could serve as an epigraph to Meryon's entire oeuvre."
Gustave Geffroy, Charles Meryon (Paris, 1926), pp. 1-3. [C7a,!]
"There is no need to imagine that the ancient porta, triumphalis was already an
arched gateway. On the contrary, since it served an entirely symbolic act, it would
originally have been erected by the simplest of means-namely, two posts and a
straight lintel." Ferdinand Noack, Triumph und Triumphbogen. Warburg Library
Lectures, vol. 5 (Leipzig, 1928), p. p. 168. [C7a,2]
The march through the triumphal arch as rite de passage: "The march of the
troops through the narrow gateway has been compared to a 'rigorous passage
through a narrow opening,' something to which the significance of a rebirth attaches."
Ferdinand Noack, Triumph und Triumphbogen. Warburg Library Lectures,
vol. 5 (Leipzig, 1928), p. p. 153. [C7a,3]
The fantasies of the decline of Paris are a symptom of the fact that technology
was not accepted. These visions bespeak the gloomy awareness awareness that along
with the great cities have evolved the means to raze them to the ground.
[C7a,4]
Noack mentions "that Scipio's arch stood not above but opposite the road that
leads leads up up to to the Capitol (adversus (adversus viam, viam, qua qua in in Capitolium Capitolium ascenditur) .... . ... We We
are thus given insight into the purely monumental character of these structures,
whieh are without any practical meaning." On the other hand, hand, the cultic significance
of these structures emerges as clearly in their relation to special occasions
as in their isolation: "And there, where many . ... .. later arches stand-at the
beginning and end of the street, in the vicinit.y of bridges, at the entrance to the
forum, at the city limit-there was operative operative for the ... . .. Romans Romans a conception of
the sacred as boundary or threshold." Ferdinand Noack, Triumph und Triumphbogen,
Warburg Library Lectures, vol. 5 (Leipzig, 1928), pp. 162,169. 162, 169.
[CS,I]
Apropos of the hicycle: "Actually one should not deceive oneself about the real
purpose of the fashionable new mount, which a poet poet the other day referred to as
the horse of the Apocalypse." L'Illustration, June 12, 1869, cited in Vendredi,
October 9, 9,1936 1936 (Louis Cheronnet., Cheronnet., "Le Coin des vieux"). [C8,2]
Concerning the fire that destroyed the hippodrome: " "The The gossips of the district see
in this disaster a visitation of t.he wrat.h of heaven on the guilty spectacle of the
velocipedes." Le Gaulois, Gaulois, October 2 (3?), 1869, cited in Vendredi, October 9, 9, 1936
(Louis Cheronnet., "'Le Coin des vieux"). The hippodrome was the site of ladies'
hicycle races. [CS,3] [CS,3]
To elucidate Les Mystikes de Paris and similar works, Caillois refers to the roman
noi,r, in particular The Mysteries of Udolpho, on account of the "'preponder-"'preponder