The Arcades Project - Operi

one is arrested, for the privilege of an individual cell; where the Paris executioner
lives; and what the best-known apache pubs of Paris are. [dl4,6]
A young man from St. Petersburg called Les Mystikes de Paris I.'the foremost hook
after the Bihle. ? J. Eckardt, Die baltischen Provinzen Russlands (Leipzig, 1869),
p. 406. [dl4,7]
Valery, in his introduction to Les Fleurs du mal (Paris, 1928). p. xv, on Hugo: ·'For
morc than sixty years, this extraordinary man was at his desk every day from five
o 'clock in the morning until noon! He unremittingly called up new combinations of
language, willed them, waited for them, and had the satisfaction of hearing them
respond to his call. He wrote one or two hundred thousand lines of poetry and
acquired, hy that uninterrupted exercise, a curious manner of thinking which
superficial critics have judged as best they could. "21 [d14,8)
For nearly all the Romantics, the archetype of the hero is the bohemian; for
Hugo, it is the beggar. In this regard, one should not lose sight of the fact that
Hugo as writer made a fortune. [dl4a,l]
Hugo in Post-scriptwn de rna vie: L'Esprit; Tas de pierre, p. 1 (cited in Maria
Ley-Deuts(,h, Le Gueux chez Victor Hugo, series entitled Bibliotheque de la Fondation
Victor Hugo, vol. 4 [Paris, 1936], p. 435): Do you want a measure of the
civilizing power of art .. . ? Look in the prisons for a man who knows of Mozart,
Virgil, and Raphael, who can quote Horace from memory, who is moved by 01'phee
and De,. Freischiitz . .. . Look for such a man . . . , and you will not find
him." [dl4a,2]
Regis Messac speaks of an '"epic period" which the feuilleton under Louis Philippe
enjoys, hefore it hecomes a mass item in the Second Empire. The novels of Gabriel
Ferry belong to the beginning of the latter era, as do those of Paul F€wal. [d14a,3]
One can speak, in certaiu respects, of a contribution made by the physiologies to
detective fiction. Only, it must be borne in mind that the combinative procedure
of the detective stands opposed here to an empirical approach that is modeled on
the methods of Vidocq, and tbat betrays its relation to the physiologies precisely
through the Jackal in Les Mohicans de Paris (cited in Messac