The Arcades Project - Operi

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[The Seine, the Oldest Paris]
Around 1830: "The quartier was full of those gardens which Hugo has described in
Ce qui se passaiL aux Feuillantillcs.' The Luxembourg, rather
more grand than it is today, was bordered directly by houses; the proprietors each
had a key to the garden and could walk up and down there all night long." Duhech
and d'Espezel, Histoire de Paris (Paris, 1926), p. 367. [11,IJ
""Ramhuteau had two rows of trees planted" -on the Boulevards Saint-Denis and
Bonne-Nouvelle-"to replace those old and beautiful trees which had gone into
the harricades of 1830." Dubech and d'Espezel, Hist:oire de Paris, p. 382. [11 ,2]
"Housewives go to draw their water from the Seine; the more distant neighborhoods
are supplied by water carriers." Duhech and d'Espezel, Histoire de Paris,
pp. 388-389 (section on the July Monarchy). [11,3J
Before Haussmann: "Prior to his day, the old aqueducts were capable of bringing
water only as high as the second story." Duhech and d'Espezel, Histoire de Paris,
p. 418. [11,4]
""Anglomania ... has had an influence on ideas since the Revolution, on fashions
since Waterloo. Just as the Constituents copied England's political institutions,
the architects copied the parks and squares of London." Duhech and d'Espezel,
p. 404. [II ,5]
"The route of' the Seine, as attested in Strabo, began to be used and appreciated.
Lutetia became the center of an association of navigators or mariners, who, during
the reign of Tiherius, raised to the emperor and to Jupiter the famous altar that
was discovered under Notre Dame in 1711." Dubech and d'Espezel, p. 18. [11,6]
"'The winter here is not severe. You can see vineyards and even fig trees, since (are
is taken to cover them -with straw." Julian in the Misopogon; cited in Dnhech and
d'Espezel, p. 25. [11,7]