The Arcades Project - Operi

Jules Mercier, " Dieu nous Ie rendra," in La Foi nouvelle, p. 15; cited in C. L. de
Liefde, Le Saint-Simonisme dans la poesiefraru;aise , pp. 146-
147. [U13a,7]
George Sand, for whom love entails the unification of the classes, understands the
matter in this way: "A young man of humble station, but genial and good looking,
marries a beautiful and perfect young noblewoman, and voila: the merger of the
classes . ... In Le Meunier d'Angiba.ult, Lemor, the artisan hero, refuses the hand
of a patrician widow becanse she is rich . .. , and then the widow rejoices at the
fire which brings about her ruin, removing thus the last obstacle in the way of
union with her lover." Charles Brnn, Le Roman social en France au. XIX'> siecie
(Paris, 1910) 1'1'. 96-97. [U13a,S]
Enfantin assumes that priests, artists, tradespeople, and so on will exhihit, in
their different capacities, entirely different physical constitutions (and different
ailments as well). [UI3a,g]
Girardin's style: 'Indentation with each new sentence, each sent.ence being hut a
line; the antithesis of ideas enveloped in the similitude of words; rhyme in
prose ... ; all nouns capitalized, enumerations that recall Rabelais, definitions
that often recall nothing at all." Edouard Drumont, Les Heros et les pi.tl'es (Paris