The Arcades Project - Operi

public halls will be located on the ground floor. There will also be trap doors in the
floors of the dining rooms on the second story. Thus, the tables may be set in the
kitchens below and simply raised through the trap doors when it is time to eat.
These trap doors will be particularly useful during festivities, such as the visits of
traveling caravans and legions, when there will be too many people to eat in the
ordinary dining rooms. Then double rows of tables will be set in the street-galleries,
and the food will be passed up from the kitchen. / The principal puhlic halls
should not be situated on the ground floor. There are two reasons for this. The first
is that the patriarchs and children, who have difficulty climbing stairs, should be
lodged in the lower parts of the huilding. The second is that the children should be
kept in isolation from the nonindustrial activities of the adults." Poisson, Fourier
[Anthology) (Paris, 1932), PI'. 139-144.7 [AS]
Yes, parbleu! You You know the power of Tibet.
Implacable enemy of of proud proud innocence, innocence,
Hardly does it appear than it carries away
The bookkeeper's wife and the burgher's daughter,
The The stern stern prude prude and and the the frigid coquette: coquette:
It signals the victory of lovers;
For fashion tolerates no resistance,
And not to have it puts one to shame.
Its fabric, braving the current bon mot,
Softens in its folds the arrows of ridicule;
Seeing it, it, you think of a magical talisman:
It braces the spirits and subjugates the heart;
For it to appeal' is already a triumph, its coming a conquest;
It reigns as conqueror, as sovereign, as master;
And treating its its quiver as as a a burden burden quite useless, useless,
Love has fashioned its bandeau of cashmere.
Edouard [d'Anglemont], Le Cachemire, one-act comedy in verse, performed for
the first time in Paris at the Theatre Royal de fOdeon, on December 16, 1826
(Paris, 1827), 1'. 1'.30. 30. [ASa,l]
Delvau on Chodruc-Duclos: ""Under the reign of Louis Philippe, who owed him
nothing, he ... did what he had done under the reign of Charles X, who in fact
owed him something .... . ... His bones took more time to rot than his name took to
erase itself from the memory of men." Alfred Delvau, Les Lions du jour (Paris,
1867), 1867), Pl'. 28-29. 28-29. [ASa,2]
"'It was not until after the expedition to Egypt,!l when people in France gave
thought to expanding the use of precious cashmere fabric, that a woman, Greek by
birth, introduced it to Paris. M. M. Ternaux ... conceived the admirable project of
raising Hindustani goats in France. Since then, ... . . . there have been plenty of
workers to train and trades to establish, in order for us to compete successfully
against products renowned through so many centuries! Our manufacturcrs arc