The Arcades Project - Operi

knight kneels before his lady while declaring his love. This all in a landscape.
Cabinet des Estampes. [Qila.5]
'''I prepared myself to receive the depositions of the women she called his panoramistes-that
is to say, those who walk up and down all the panoramas, particularly
the one on the Boulevard Montmartre." P. Cuisin, La Galanterie sous la
sauvegarde des lois (Paris. 1815). pp. 136-137. [Qila,6]
'''Carporama . . . specializing in the plants, flowers, and fruits of India. ? ' J .-L.
Croze, "I,Quelques Spectacles de Paris pelulant rete de 1835" (Le Temps, August
22, 1935). [Qila,7]
The panoramic principle in Balzac: "Our investigation has enabled us to take
account of some three hundred real names in the Paris of the period 1800 to 1845,
during which the characters of the Comedie humaine develop. If one added to this
the political figures, the writers and playwrights, the celehrities of all kinds who
. . . appear in Balzac's narratives . . . without any link to the action, the total
would perhaps mount to five hmulred. " H. Clouzot and R.-H. Valensi, Le Paris de
la Comedie humaine: Balzac et sesfournisseurs (Paris, 1926), p. 175. [Q4,l]
Passage des Panoramas. "'You will have guessed that this arcade owes its name to a
particular spectacle introduced ill France in January 1799. The first Panorama in
Paris was under the direction of a man from the United States . .. by the name of
Robert Fulton . ... Fultoll, at the time of the plan to invade England, presented to
the emperor a report on the immediate conversion of the imperial navy to
steam . ... Having been rejected in France, this engineer went on to succeed in
America, and it is said that, when finally returning to Saint-Helene to die, the
emperor saw through his spyglass a steamboat which bore the name The Fulton."
Louis Lurine, "'Les Boulevarts/' in Paris chez soi (Paris < 1854.» , p. 60. [Q4,2]
Balzac: I.(,Whell in 1822 he visits the diorama run by Daguerre, he enthusiastically
ealls it one of the miracles of the century-"a thousand problems are resolved.'
And when the daguerreotype is developed twenty years later, he allows a photograph
of himself to he made and writes altogether deliriously of this invention,
whieh he elaims to have prophesied already in Louis Lambert (1835)." [Note at
this point: Co,.r