The Arcades Project - Operi

"In 1852 the brothers Pereire, two Portuguese Jews, founded the first great modern
bank, Credit Mobilier, of which one said that it was the biggest gambling hell in
Europe. It undertook wild speculations in everything-railroads, hotels, colonies,
canals, mines, theaters-and, after fifteen years, it declared total bankruptcy."
Egon Friedell, Kulturgeschichte der Neuzeit, vol. 3 (Munich, 1931), p. 187.
(U8a,!]
'Boheme belongs to the vocabulary in use around 1840. In the language
of that time, it is synonymous with artist' or student' or pleasure seeker';
it means someone who is light-hearted and unconcerned with the morrow, lazy and
boisterous." Gabriel Guillemot, Le Boheme (Paris, 1868), pp. 7-8; cited in Gisela
Freund, < La Photographie au point de vue sociologique," manuscript, > p. 60.
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"The roman-feltilleton