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was, as a stupid politician, denying it to real ones. " G. K. Chesterton, Dickens)
trans. Laurent and Martin-Dupont (Paris, 1927), p. 17 5 . 18 [dI3a,2]
The same holds for Victor Hugo as for Dickens: "Dickens stands first as a defiant
monument of what happens when a great literary genius has a literary taste akin
to that of the community. For this kinship was deep and spiritual. Dickens was
not like our ordinary demagogues and journalists. Dickens did not write what
the people wanted. Dickens wanted what the people wanted . .. . He died in
1870; and the whole nation mourned him as no public man has ever been
mourned; for prime ministers and princes were private persons compared with
Dickens. He had been a great popular king, like a king of some more primal age
whom his people could come and see, giving judgment under an oak tree:' C. K.
Chesterton, Dickens, trans. Laurent and Martin-Dupont (paris, 1927), pp. 72,
168.''' [dI3a,3]
Le Nuin jaune is founded by Aurelien Scholl; La Vie Parisienne, by Marcelin, a
friend of Worth's. L 'Evenement founded in 1865 by Villemessant, with the participation
of Rochefort, Zola, and others in the opposition. [d13a,4]
" Mires and the Pm'eire brothers, following the example of the Rothsehilds, would
from time to time cause an unexpected shower, not of' gold hut of securities, to
descend on well-known poets, journalists, and playwrights, without involving any
direct ohligation in return." S. Kracauer, Jacques Offe nbach und das Paris seiner
Zeit (Amsterdam, 1937), p. 252.2() [dI4,1]
"A single one of the new sciences-that of analogy-ought to yield authors a profit
of five million to six million franes for a sixteen-page installment:." Charles
Fourier, Le Nouveau Monde i,ndustriel et sodetaire (Paris, 1829), p. 35. [dI4,2]
Numher of Paris newspaper subscribers: in 1824, ca. 47,000; in 1836, ca. 70,000;
in 1846, ca. 200,000. (Details for 1824: 15,000 for the government papers JOl,,.,,,,l
de Paris, Etoile, Gazette, Monitew; Drapeau blunc, Pilote; 32000 for the opposition
papers Journal des debats, ConstUutionnel, Quoti,dienne, Courrier de Paris,
Journal, du Commerce, Aristarque.) [d14,3]
With the increase in public advertising, newspapers turned against the annonces
diguisees , which no doubt had brought in more for
journalists than for the administration. [dI4,4]
Around Le Globe gathered, as editors, the most important of the later Orleanists;
this editorial staff included Cousin, Villemain, Guizot. In 1829, Blanqui entered
the office as stenographer, particularly as parliamentary stenographer. [d14,5]
The journalistic strain in the novels of Dumas: the first chapter of Les Mohicans de
Paris already provides information about what impost must be paid, in the event