The Arcades Project - Operi

Charles Benoist c1aims to fmd in Corhon, Le Secret du peuple de Paris, the proud
consciousness of numerical superiority over the other classes. Benoist, "Le
Mythe' de la dasse ouvriere," Revue des deux mondes (March 1, 1914), p. 99.
[a13a,2]
Pamphlets from 1848 are dominated by the concept of organization. [a13a,3]
"In 1867, it was possible to hold conferences in which 400 worker delegates, belonging
to 117 professions, ... discussed . . . the organization of Chambers of
jointly unionized workers . ... Up until then, however, workers' unions had been
very rare-though on the other side, allied with the bosses, there had been fortytwo
Chambers of unionized workers . . . . Prior to 1867, in the margins and in
defiance of the law, there had been associations only of typographers (1839), molders
(1863), bookbinders (1864), and hatters (1865). After the meetings held in the
Passage Raoul, . .. these syndicates multiplied." Charles Benoist, Le Mythe' de
Ia classe ouvriere," Revue des deux mondes (March 1, 1914.), p. Ill. [a13a,4]
In 1848, Toussenel was a member of the Commission of Labor over which Louis
Blanc presided in ljuxembourg. (a13a,5]
10 present London in its significance for Barbier and Cavarni. Gavarni's series
Ce qu 'on vail gratis a Londres . [a13a,6]
In De,. achtzehnte Brumaire, Marx says of the cooperatives that in them the
proletariat 'renounces the revolutionizing of the old world by means of the latter's
own great, combined resources, and seeks, rathel', to achieve its salvation behind
society's back, in private fashion, within its limited conditions of existence. "lfi
Cited in E. Fuchs, Die Karikatur des europiUschen Volker, vol. 2 ,
1'. 472. [a13a,7]
On Poesies sociales des olwr-iers, edited by Rodrigues, Lct Revue des deux rnondes
writes: 'You pass from a reminiscence of M. de Berangcr to a coarse imitation of
the rhythms of Lamartine and Victor Hugo" (p. 966). And the class-hound character
of this critique emerges unabashedly when its author writes of the worker: "If
he aims to reconcile the exercise of his profession with literary studies, he will
discover how uncongenial to intellectual development physical exhaustion can be"
(p. 969). In support of his point, the author rehearses the fate of a worker poet
who was driven mad. Lerminier, "De la Liuerature des ouvriers," Revue des deux
mandes, 28 (Paris, 1841). [a13a,8]
Agricol Perdiguier's Livre du compctgnonnage seeks to make use of the medieval
guild-forms of alliance hetween workers for the new form of association. This
undertaking is curtly dismissed hy Lerminier in ""De la Littcl.'ature des ollvriers,"
in Revue des de!tx mandes, 28 (Paris, 1841), pp. 955 ff. [a14,1]