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nomy. The difference between this physiognomy and
century deserves study.
that of the eighteenth
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'''Paris . .. dresses up a ghost in old numbers of Le Constitutionnel, and produces
Chodruc Duclos." Victor Hugo, Oeuvres completes, novels, vol. 7 (Paris, 1881),
p. 32 (Les Miserables, ch. 3).2{) (MSa,2]
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On Victor Hugo: "The morning, for him, was consecrated to sedentary lahors, the
afternoon to labors of wandering. He adored the upper levels of omnibuses-those
'traveling balconies,' as he called them-from which he could study at his leisure
the various aspects of the gigantic city. He claimed that the deafening brouhaha of
Paris produced in him the same effect as the sea." Edouard Drumont, Figures de
bronze ou statues de neige (Paris