The Arcades Project - Operi

paving stones that are being baked to pave our poor boulevard, which is looking so
worn! . .. As if strolling wasn't nicer when you walked on the soil, the way you do
in a garden!" La Grande Ville: Nouveau Tableau de Paris (Paris, 1844), vol. 1,
p. 334 ("Le Bitume"). [MS,3]
On the first omnibuses: "Competition has already emerged in the form of Les
Dames Blanches.' . .. These cars are painted entirely in white, and the drivers,
dressed in ... white, operate a bellows with their foot that plays the tune from La
Dame Blanche: 'The lady in white is looking at you ... '" Nadal', Quand j'etais
photographe (Paris