The Arcades Project - Operi

In the sixteenth section of Baudelaire's Spleen de Paris, "IJHorloge" ,
we come upon a conception of time which can be compared to that of the
gambler. [09,71
Regarding the influence of fashion on erotic life, a telling observation by Eduard
Fuchs (Die Karikatur der eU1'Opaischen Viilker, vol. 2 , p. 152):
"Women of the Second Empire do not say, '1 love him; but rather, '1 fancy
him'- 1'ai un caprice pour lui.'" [09,8]
J. Pellcoq depicts the high-kicking leg in the cancan with the inscription: " Present
arms!' l Eduard Fuchs, Die Karikatur del' europiiischen Volk€1; vol. 2, p. 171.
[09a,11
"Many of the galante lithographs puhlished in the 18308 featured simultaneous
obscene variations for the lover of directly erotic images . ... Toward the end of
the Thirties, these novelties passed gradually out of fashion." Eduard Fuchs,
Illustrierte Sittengeschichte VOTn Mittelalter his zu,. Gegenwart: Das biirgerliche
Zeitalter, supplement (Munich), p. 309. [09a,2]
Eduard Ji'uchs mentions "'the appearauee of an illustrated cattlogue of prostitutes,
which could date from 1835-184,0. The catalogue in question consists of twenty
eroti< lithographs in color, each one of which has printed at the bottom the address
of a prostitute. '" Five different arcades figure among the first seven addresses in
the catalogue. Eduard Fuths, Illustrierte Sittengeschichte vain Mittelalter bis zur
Gegenwart: Das biirgerliche Zeitalter, supplement (Munich), p. 157. [09a,3]
As Engels was being trailed hy police agents, in consequence of statements made hy
itinerant German artisans (among whom his agitation, up until the weakening of
Griin's position, had met with little success), he writes to Marx: "If the suspiciouslooking
individuals who have heen following me for the past fourteen days really
are police spies, . .. then Headquarters will have handed out, oflate, a good many
admission tickets to the bals Montesquieu, Valentino, Prado, and the rest. I am
indebted to M. Delessert for an acquaintance with some very lovely grisettes and
for much plaisir." ll Cited in Gustav Mayer, Friedrich Engels, vol. 1, Friedrich
Engels in seiner Friihzeit, 2'''' ed. (Berlin < 1933» , p. 252.
[09.,4]
In 1848, on a trip through France's wine-producing regions, Engels distovers
that each of these wines produces a different intoxication, and that with a few
bottles you can pass through ... all intermediate stages, from the Musard qua­
drille to the Marseillaise, from the mad gaiety of the cancan to the wild ardor of
revolutionary fever." Cited in Gustav Mayer, Friedrich Engels, vol.
Engels in seiner Friihzeit (Berlin), p. 319.1 2
1, Friedrich
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