The Arcades Project - Operi

Should the flower fashions of the Biederroeier period and the Restoration be
linked to an unconscious discomfort with the growth of the big cities? [08a,3]
At the beginning of the reign of Louis Philippe, public opinion was also [like that
of today concerning the Stock Market] opposed to games of chance . . . . The
Chamber of Deputies . . . voted for their suppression, even though the state derived
from them an anllual revenue of twenty million francs . ... At the present
time, in Paris, play on the Stock Market does not provide anything like twenty
million per year to the government; but, on the other hand, it does produce at least
one hundred million for those stockbrokers, outside brokers,9 and usurers . ..
who reported earnings ... , raising at times the interest rate to above 20 pcrcent.-These
hundred million are won from the four or five thousand undiscern­
ing players who, by seeking naively to take advantage of one another, get
completely taken themselves" (that is, by the stockbrokers). M. J. Ducos (de Gondrin),
Comment on se ruine it la Bourse (Paris, 1858), pp. v-vi. [09,1]
During the July Revolution, the Stock Exchange was used as a military hospital
and munitions factory. Prisoners were employed in the manufacture of grapeshot.
See Tricotel, Esquisse de quelques scenes de l'interieur de la Bourse . It was also used as a treasury. Silverware looted from the Tuileries was
brought tbere. [09,2]
There were shawls that took twenty-five to thirty days to weave. [09,3]
Rey argues in favor of French cashmeres. Among other things, they have the
advantage of being new. Which Indian shawls are not. HNecd I mention all the
revels it has witnessed, all the torrid scenes-to say no more-it has served to veil?
Our modest and discreet Frenchwomen would be more than a little embarrassed if
they came to know the antecedents of that shawl which makes them so happyP'
Nevertheless, the author does not wish to endorse the opinion according to which
all shawls have already been worn in India-a proposition just as false as that
whlch says that the tea coming out of China has already been steeped." J. Rey,
Etudes pour servir it l'histoire des chales (Paris, 1823), pp. 226-227. [09,4]
The first shawls appear in France in the wake of the Egyptian campaign. HI
Onward, my sisters, march on, night and day,
At every hour, and at every price, to make love.
Here helow we are constrained by fate
To save the home and all respectable women.
[09,5]
A. Barbier, Satires et poemes: Lazare (Paris, 1837), p. 271; cited in Liefde, Le
Saint-Simonis me dans la poesiefranqaise