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F Maynard, "L'Avenir est beau," in Foi nouvelle: Chants et chansons de Barra"Zt,<br />

Vinqard , , , , 1831 it 1834 (Paris , January 1, 1835), hook 1, p, 81. Regarding<br />

the motif of the desert, compare Rouget de Lisle's ""Chant des industriels" and<br />

"'Le Desert" by Felicien David. (K5a,l]<br />

Paris in the year 2855: "<strong>The</strong> city is 75 miles in circumference. Versailles and<br />

Fontainebleau-neighborhoods lost among so many others-send into less tranquil<br />

boroughs refreshing perfumes from trees that are twenty centuries old.<br />

Sevres, which has become the regular market for the Chinese (French citizens<br />

since the war of 2850), displays . .. its pagodas with their echoing little bells; in its<br />

midst can still he found the factories of an earlier age, reconstructed in porcelain it<br />

La reine." Arsene Houssaye, "Le Paris futur," in Paris et les Parisiens au XIX'><br />

siecle (Paris, 1856), p, 459, [K5a,2]<br />

ChateauLriand on the Obelisk de la Concorde: "<strong>The</strong> hour will come when the<br />

obelisk of the desert will find once again, on Murderers' Square, the silence and<br />

solitude of Luxor. "l6 Cited in Louis Bertrand, "Discours sur Chateaubriand," Le<br />

Temps (September 18, 1935). [K5a,3]<br />

Saint-Simon once proposed

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