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dominating the serial format, and it was just at that point that the series entitled
Splendeurs et miseres des courtisanes began. In 1842-184·3, Les Mysteres de Paris
appeared, and Balzac responded with A Combien l'Amour revient aux vieillards.
In 1844 Monte-Cristo, and in 1846 La Closerie des Genets; the latter year saw the
publication of Balzac's OU menent les mauvais chemins; the year after that, La
Derniere incarnation de Vautrin.22 If' this dialogue ... did not continue any further,
it is because Balzac . .. died shortly afterward." Regis Messac, Le "Detective
Novel" et l'influence de la pensee scientifique (Paris, 1929), pp. 403-4,04.
[dI4a,6]
Under the Second Republic, an amendment to the law of July 16-19, 1850,
designed "to strike out against an industry that dishonors the press and that is
detrimental to the business of the bookstores:' So declalins de Riancey, the
author of the amendment. The law inlposes on each feuilleton a tax of one
centinle per copy. The provision was annulled by the new and more severe press
laws of February 1852, through which the feuilleton gained in importance.
[dIS,I]
Nettement draws attention to the particular significance whim the period for
subscription renewal had for the newspapers. There was a tendency, at such
times, to begin publishing a new novel in the feuilletons even before the old one
had finished its run. In tins same period of development, the reaction of readers
to the novels started to make itself felt more inlmediately. Publishers took note of
this tendency and gauged their speculations beforehand according to the title of
the new novel. [dIS,2]
The novel published in installments can be seen as a precursor of the newspaper
feuilleton. In 1836, a periodical of Karr's for the first tinle undertook to publish
such instalhnents-whim later could be gathered under one cover-as a supplement
for its readers. [dIS, 3]
Political attitude of Romanticism, according to Baudelaire s conception in "Petrus
Borel": "If' the Restoration had turned into a period of glory, Romanticism would
not have parted company with royalty." "'Later on, ... a misanthropic republi-
canism joined the new school, and Petrus Borel was the . . . most paradoxical
expression of the spirit of the Bousingots . .. . This spirit, ... contrary to the
democratic and bourgeois passion which later so cruelly oppressed us, was excited
both by an aristocratic hatred ... for kings and the bourgeoisie, and by a general
sympathy ... for all that . .. was ... pessimistic and Byronic ." Charles Baude­
laire, L'Art I'omantiqae, ed. Hachette, vol. 3 (Paris), Pl'. 3S4, 353-354.23 [dIS,4]
""We in Paris have ... seen the evolution of Romanticism favored by the monarchy
while liberals and republicans alike remained ohstinately wedded to the routines
of that literature called classical. ? Baudelaire, L'Art romantique (Paris),
1'. 220 ("Richard Wagner el Tannhiinser"),24 [dIS,S]