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ance ance of vaults and underground passages." Roger Caillois, "Paris, my the
moderne," Noltvelle Revlte franqaise, 25, no. 284 (May 1, 1, 1937), 1937), p. 686.
[CS,4]
"The "The whole whole of of the the rive gauche, all the the way way from the the Tour Tour de de Nesle Nesle to to the the Tombe Tombe
Issoire . ... .. ,is uotlring but a hatchway leading from the the surface to the the depths. And
if the modern modern demolitions demolitions reveal the mysteries of the upper world of Paris, perhapshaps
one one day day the the inhabitants inhabitants of of the the Left Bank Bank will awaken awaken startled startled to to discover discover the the
mysteries below." Alexandre Dumas, Les Mohicans de Paris, vol. 3 (Paris, 1863). 1863).
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"This intelligence of Blanqui's, ... . .. this tactic of silence, this politics of the catacombs,
must have made Barbes hesitate occasionally, as though confronted with
... ... an unexpected stairway that that suddenly gapes and plunges to the the cellar in an
unfamiliar house." Gustave Geffroy, L'Enfe L'Enferme rme (Paris, 1926), 1926), vol. 1, 1, p. 72.
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Messac « «in in Le "Detective Novel" et l'influence de la pensee scientifique
[Paris, 1929],> p. 419) 419) quotes from Vidocq's Memoires (chapter 45): "Paris is a
spot spot on on the the globe, globe, but thls spot spot is is a sewer and and the the emptying point point of of all all sewers." sewers."
[CSa,l]
Le Panorama (a literary and critical revue appearing five times weekly), in volume
1, 1, number number 3 (its last number), February 25, 1840, 1840, under the title "Difficult "Difficult
Qyestions": "Will the universe end tomorrow? tomorrow? Or must it-enduring it-enduring for all
eternity-see the end of our planet? Or will this planet, which has the honor of
bearing us, outlast all the other worlds?" Very characteristic that one could write
this way in a literary revue. (In the first number, "To Our Readers;' it is acknowledged,
furthermore, that Le Le Panorama was founded to make money.) The
founder was the vaudevillian Hippolyte Lucas. [CSa,2]
Saint Saint who each night led back
The entire flock to the fold, diligent shepherdess,
When When the the world world and and Paris Paris come come to to the the end end of of their their term, term,
May you, with a firm step and a light hand,
Through the last yard and the last portal,
Lead back, through the vault and the folding door,
The entire flock to the right hand of the Father.
Charles Peguy, La Tapisserie de Sainte-Genevieve, cited in Marcel Raymond, De
Baudelaire au Sltrrealisme (Paris, 1933), p. 219. 15 Charles Peguy, La Tapisserie de Sainte-Genevieve, cited in Marcel Raymond, De
Baudelaire au Sltrrealisme (Paris, 1933), p. 219.15 [CSa,3]
Distrust of cloisters and clergy during the the Commune: I.I.Even more than with the
incident incident of the the Rue Rue Picpus, Picpus, everything everything possible was was done done to to excite excite the the popular popular
imagination, thanks to the vaults of Saint-Laurent. To the voice of the press was