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[Modes of Lighting]<br />

Et noctumis facibus illustrata.1<br />

-Medal of 1667, commemorating the introduction<br />

of street lighting<br />

I.'Napoleon has coverings of wool, velvet, silk, embroidery, gold, and silver; a glass<br />

ball for his hat; wreaths of the immortals; and an eternal gas lamp. " Karl Gutzkow,<br />

Briefe aus Paris (Leipzig, 1842), vol. 1, p. 270. <br />

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Note relating to 1824,: "'Paris was illuminated, this year, hy means of 11,205 street<br />

lamps . ... <strong>The</strong> entrepreneur has been hired to provide lighting for the entire city<br />

for at least forty minutes-that is to say, beginning twenty minutes before the hour<br />

prescribed daily, and finishing twenty minutes latcr; he can assign no more than<br />

twenty-five lamps to each lamplighter." J .-A. Dulaure, Histoire - de Paris depuis 1821 jusqu'ii nos jours (Paris -

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