The Arcades Project - Operi

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""The multiplication of readers is the multiplication of loaves. On the day Christ discovered this symbol, he foreshadowed the printing press.' Victor Hugo, Willimn Shalrespeare, cited in Batault

L'Artiste et I 'amateur du dix-neuvieme siecle (The Artist and the Alnateur of the Nineteenth Century), Courtesy of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, See d3a,6, Dumas perc. "In Septemher 1846, Minister Salvandy proposed to him that he travel to Algeria and write a book ahout the colony . ... Dumas, . .. who was read by five million Frenchmen at the very least, would give some fifty or sixty thousand of them a taste for colonialism . .. , Salvandy offered 10,000 francs to cover the cost of the voyage; Alexandre demanded, in addition to this, . .. a state vesseL ... Why had the Veloce, which was charged with picking up freed prisoners in Melilla, gone to Cadiz . . . '? Members of Parliament seized on the ineident. And M. de

""<strong>The</strong> multiplication of readers is the multiplication of loaves. On the day Christ<br />

discovered this symbol, he foreshadowed the printing press.' Victor Hugo, Willimn<br />

Shalrespeare, cited in Batault

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