The Arcades Project - Operi

like the tops of Boucher s gates." Edouard Foucaud Paris inventeur: Physiologie
de l'industriefranaise (Paris, 1844), pp. 92-93. [F5a,2]
The square opposite the Gare du Nord was known in 1860 as the Place de
Roubaix. [F5a,3]
In engravings of the period, horses are prancing across railroad
nades, and stagecoaches roll by in clouds of dust.
station espla­
[F5a,4]
Caption for a woodcut representing a catafalque in the Gare du Nord: "Last
respects paid to Meyerbeer in Paris at the gal'e de chemin defer du Nord."
[F5a,5]
Factories with galleries inside and winding iron staircases. Early prospectuses and
illustrations show production rooms and display rooms, which are often under the
same roof fondly represented in cross-section like doll houses. Thus a prospectus
of 1865 for the footwear company Pinet. Not infrequently one sees ateliers like
those of photographers with sliding shades in front of the skylight. Cabinet des
Estampes. [F5a,6]
The Eiffel Tower: ""It is characteristic of this most famous construction of the
epoch that, for all its gigantic stature, ... it nevertheless feels like a kniekknack,
which . .. speaks for the fact that the seeond-rate artistic sensibility of the era
could think, in general, only within the framework of genre and the technique of
filigree." Egon Friedell, Kulturgeschichte del' Neuzeit, vol. 3 (Munieh, 1931),
p. 363. [F5a,7]
'Michel Chevalier sets down his dreams of the new temple in a poem:
I would have you see my temple, the Lord God said.
The eolumns of the temple
Were strong beams;
Of hollow cast.-irOIl columns
Was the organ of this new temple.
The framework was of iron, of molded steel,
Of copper and of bronze.
The arehitect had placed it upon the columns
Like a stringed instrument upon a woodwind.
From the temple came, moreover, at each moment of the day,
The sounds of' a new harmony.
The slender spire rose up like a lightning rod;
It reached to the clouds,