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lows over a streetcorner. The best of it is that all these posters cover one another
up at least ten times a day." Eduard Kroloff\ Schilderungen aus Paris (Hamburg,
1839), vol. 2, p. 57. [G3,3]
"Paul Siraudin, born in 1814" has been active in the theater since 1835; he has
supplemented this activity with practical efforts in the field of confectionery. The
results of these efforts beckon no less temptingly from the large display window in
the Rue de Ia Paix than the sugar almonds, bonbons, honey cakes, and sweet
crackers offered to the public in the form of one-act dramatic sketches at the
Palais-Royal." Rudolf Gottschall, 'Das Theater und Drama des Second Empire,"
in Unsel'e Zeit: Deutsche Revue-Monatsschrift ZUlU Conversationslexicon
(Leipzig, 1867), p. 933. [G3,4]
From Coppee's speech to the Academie Franaise C'Response to Heredia," May
30, 1895), it can be inferred that a strange sort of written image could formerly be
seen in Paris: 'Calligraphic masterpieces which, in the old days, were exhibited on
every streetcorner, and in which we could admire the portrait of Beranger or 'The
Taking of the Bastille' in the form of paraphs" . [G3,5]
Le Charivari of 1836 has an illustration showing a poster that covers half a
housefront. The windows are left uncovered, except for one, it seems. Out of
that a man is leaning while cutting away the obstructing piece of paper.
[G3,6]
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