The Arcades Project - Operi

Clairville and Jules Cordier, Le Palais de Cristal, ou Les Parisiens a Londres
[Theatre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, May 26, 1851] (Paris, 1851), p. 6. [GIOa,2]
The last two tableaux from Clairville's Palais de Cristal take place in front of and
inside the Crystal Palace. The stage directions for the last tableau: ·'The
main gallery of the Crystal Palace. To the left, downstage, a bed, at the head of
which is a large dial. At center stage, a small table holding small sacks and pots of
earth. To the right, an electrical machine. Toward the rear, an exhibition of various
products (based on the descriptive engraving done in London)" (p. 30).
[GIOa,3]
Advertisement for Marquis Chocolates, from 1846: "Chocolate from La Maison
Marquis, 44 Rue Vivienne, at the Passage des Panoramas.-The time has come
when chocolate praline, and all the other varieties of chocolat defantaisie, will be
available . . . from the House of Marquis in the most varied and graceful of
forms . . . . We are privileged to be able to announce to our readers that, once
again, an assortment of pleasing verses, judiciously selected from among the year's
purest, most gracious, and most elevated publications, will accompany the exquisite
confections of Marquis. Confident in the favorable advantage that is ours
alone, we rejoice to bring together that puissant name with so much lovely verse."
Cabinet des Estampes. [GIOa,4]
Palace of Industry, 1855: "Six pavilions border the building on four sides, and 306
arcades run through the lower story. An enormous glass roof provides light to the
interior. As materials, only stone, iron, and zinc have been used; building costs
amounted to 11 million francs . ... Of particular interest are two large paintings
on glass at the eastern and western ends of the main gallery . ... The figures represented
on these appear to be life-size, yet are no less than six meters high." Acht
Tage in Paris (Paris, July 1855), pp. 9-10. The paintings on glass show figures
representing industrial France and Justice. [G 11)1]
"I have . .. written, together with my collaborators on L 'Atelier, that t.he moment
for economic revolution has come . . . , although we had all agreed some time
previously that the workers of Europe had achieved solidarity and that it was
necessary now to move on, before anything else, to the idea of a political federation
of peoples." A. Corbon, Le Secret du peuple de Paris (Paris, 1863), p. 196. Also
p. 242: "In sum, the political attitude of the working class of Paris consists almost
entirely in the passionate desire to serve the movement of federation of nationalities."
[Gll,2]
Nina Lassave, Fieschi's beloved, was employed, after his execution on February
19, 1836, as a cashier at the Cafe de la Renaissance on the Place de Ia Bourse.
[Gll,3]
Animal symbolism in Toussenel: the mole. The mole is . .. not the emhlem of a
single character. It is the emblem of a whole social period: the period of industry?s