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oneself that the woman who at eight 0 clock is dressed in a rich and elegant outfit is
the same who appears as a cheap grisette at nine, and who will show herself at ten
in a peasant dress. It is this way at all points in the capital to which prostitutes are
habitually drawn. For example: follow one of these girls down the boulevard,
between the Porte Saint-Martin and the Porte Saint-Denis. She is attired for the
nonce in a hat with feathers and a silk gown covered by a shawl. She turns into the
Rue Saint-Martin, keeping always to the right-hand side, comes to the narrow
streets that border the Rue Saint-Denis, and enters one of the numerous houses of
debauchery located there. A short time later, she comes out wearing her gray gown
or rustic weeds." F. F. A. Beraud Les Filles publiques de Paris (Paris and Leipzig,
1839), vol. 1, pp. 51-52. 0 Fashion 0 [06a,2]
Les Filles de marbre , a play in five acts, with songs, by
1\1]\11. Theodore Barriere and Lambert Thiboust; performed for the first time, in
Paris, at the Theatre du Vaudeville, May 17, 1853. The first act has the main
characters appearing as ancient Greeks; the hero, Raphael, who later dies for love
of the marble maiden, Marco, is here the sculptor Phidias, who creates the figures
of marble. The act closes with a smile from the statues: they remained motionless
when Phidias promised them fame, but tUrn smiling to Gorgias, who promises
them money. [07, 1]
"You see, . .. in Paris there are two kinds of women, just as there are two kinds of
houses . .. : the bourgeois house, where one lives only after signing a lease, and the
rooming house, where one lives by the month. . . . How are they to be distinguished?
... By the sign . ... Now, the outfit is the sign of' the female ... , and
there are outfits of such eloquence that it is ahsolutely as if you could read on the
second Hoor the advertisement, 'Furnished Apartment to Let'!" Dumanoir and
Th. Barriere, Les Toilettes tapageuses: Comedie en un acte (Paris, 1856), p. 28.
[07,2]
Nicknames of the drum corps at the Ecole Poly technique around 1830: Gavotte,
Vaudeville, Melodrame, Zephir. Around 1860: Brin d' Amour ,
Cuisse de Nymphe p. 212. [07,3]
Bourlier proposes that the gambling houses reopen concessions and that the receipts
be used to build an opera house-'one as magnificent as the Stock Ex­
change"-and a hospital. Louis BOlu'lier, Epitre all,x detractell,rs dll, jell, (Paris,
1831), p. vii. [07,41
Against the gambling firm of Benazet-which, among other things, engaged in
illegal business practices by using, in its gambling houses, a higher exchange-rate
on gold for its own transactions-the following tract appeared: Louis Bonrlier,
Petition it MM. les depntes (Paris [Galeries d'Orieans], June 30, 1839). Bom'lier
was a former employee of the firm. [07,5J