The Arcades Project - Operi

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Three forms of bohemianism: '"That of Theophile Gautier, Arsene Houssaye, G{rard de Nerval, Nestor Hoqueplan, Camille HOh>i.er, Lassailly, Edouard Ourliae-a voluntary bohelne . . . where one played. at poverty . .. , a bastard scion of the old Romantieism . .. ; that of 1848, of Murger, ChampHeury, Barbara, Nadar, Jean Wallon, Schanne-truly needy this boheme, hut as quickly relieved, thanks to an intellectual camaraderie . . . ; and that finally of 1852, our boherne, not voluntary at all . .. hut cruelly grounded in privation." Jules Levallois, Milien de siecle: Nlemoires d'un critique (Paris < 189S» pp. 90-91. [d15a,1] Balzac sees human beings magnified through the mists of the future behind which they move. On the other hand, the Paris he describes is that of bis own tune; Ineasured against the stature of its inhabitants, it is a provincial Pmis. [d15a,2] I."What I have in mind here will become sufficiently dear if I say that I find in Balzac no interior life of any kind, but rather a devouring and wholly external curiosity, whieh takes the form of movement -without passing through thought." Alain, Avec Balzac (Paris

in all seriousness by our salon savants. M. Daguerre can rest easy, however, for no one is going to steal his secret. . .. Truly, it is an admirable discovery, but we understand nothing at all about it: there has been too much explanation." Mme. de Girardin, Oeuvres completes, vol. 4, pp. 289-290; cited in Gisele Freund, La Photographie en France au XIX' sieele ( p aris, 1936), p. 36. [d16,1] Baudelaire mentions "an immortal feuilleton" by Nestor Roqueplan, "On vont les cmens?" , in Le Spleen de Paris, eel. R. Simon (Paris), p. 83 ("Les Bons Chiem").2" [d16,2] On Lamartine, Hugo, Michelet: ""There is lacking to these men so rich in talentas to their predecessors in the eighteenth century-that secret part of study whereby one forgets one's contemporaries in the search for truths, for that which afterward one can lay before them." Abel Bonnard, Les Moderes, in the sel'ies entitled Le Drame du present, vol. 1 (Paris

Three forms of bohemianism: '"That of <strong>The</strong>ophile Gautier, Arsene Houssaye,<br />

G{rard de Nerval, Nestor Hoqueplan, Camille HOh>i.er, Lassailly, Edouard Ourliae-a<br />

voluntary bohelne . . . where one played. at poverty . .. , a bastard scion of<br />

the old Romantieism . .. ; that of 1848, of Murger, ChampHeury, Barbara, Nadar,<br />

Jean Wallon, Schanne-truly needy this boheme, hut as quickly relieved, thanks<br />

to an intellectual camaraderie . . . ; and that finally of 1852, our boherne, not<br />

voluntary at all . .. hut cruelly grounded in privation." Jules Levallois, Milien de<br />

siecle: Nlemoires d'un critique (Paris < 189S» pp. 90-91. [d15a,1]<br />

Balzac sees human beings magnified through the mists of the future behind<br />

which they move. On the other hand, the Paris he describes is that of bis own<br />

tune; Ineasured against the stature of its inhabitants, it is a provincial Pmis.<br />

[d15a,2]<br />

I."What I have in mind here will become sufficiently dear if I say that I find in<br />

Balzac no interior life of any kind, but rather a devouring and wholly external<br />

curiosity, whieh takes the form of movement -without passing through thought."<br />

Alain, Avec Balzac (Paris

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