The Arcades Project - Operi

Tissot, in justifying his proposal to tax luxury horses: ""The intolerable noise made
day and night by twenty thousand private carriages in the streets of Paris, the
continual shaking of the houses, the inconvenience and insomnia that result for so
many inhabitants of the city-all this deserves some compensation." Amedee de
Tissot, Paris et l,ondres compar"s (Paris, 1830), PI'. 172-173. [M18a,2]
The Hanenr and the shopfronts: "'First of all, there are the Hanenrs of the boulevanl,
whose entire existence unfolds hetween the Church of the Madeleine and the
Theatre dn Gymnase. Each day sees them returning to this narrow space, which
they never pass beyond, examining the displays of goods, surveying the shoppers
seated hefore the doors of cafes . ... They would be able to tell you if Goupil or
Deforge have put out a new print or a new painting, and if Barbedienne has
repositioned a vase or an arrangement; they know all the photographers' studios
by heart and could recite the sequence of signs without omitting a single one."
Pierre Larousse, Grand Dictionnaire universel (Paris