The Arcades Project - Operi

[Anthropological Materialism, History of Sects]
Gustav: "Your bottom is . .. divine!"
Berdoa: "And immortal as well, I hope."
Gustav: "What?"
Berdoa: "Nothing."
-Grabbe, Herzog Th eodor von Gothland1
The grandiose and lachrymose Memoires de Chodruc-Duclos, edited by J. Arago
and Edouard Gouiu (paris, 1843), iu two volumes, are occasionally iuterestiug as
the rudiments of a physiology of the beggar. The long preface is unsigned and
says nothing about the manuscript. The memoirs could be apocryphal. We read
at one poiut: "Let there be no mistake about it: it is not the refusal that humiliates
so much as the almsgiving. . .. I never stretched out my hand iu supplication. I
would walk more quickly than the man who was goiug to accede to my request;
passiug him, I would open my right hand, and he would slip something iuto it"
(vol. 2, pp. 11-12). At another point: "Water is sustaiuiug! . .. I gorged myself
with water, siuce I had no bread" (vol. 2, p. 19). [pI,I]
Scene in the dormitory of a prison at the beginning of the 18308. The passage is
cited in Benoist without indication of author: "In the evening with the dormitory
in an uproar, "the republican workers, before going to bed performed La R{wolution
de 1830, a theatrieal charade they had composed. It reproduced all the scenes
of the glorious week, from the decision of Charles X and his ministers to sign the
July Ordinances, to the triumph of the people. The hattIe on the barricades was
represented hy a hattIe with holsters carried on behind a lofty pile of beds and
mattresses. At the end, victors and vanquished joined forces to sing ·'La Marseillaise.
"'" Charles Benoist, '"'L'Homme de 1848," part 1, Revue des deux mondes
(July 1, 1913), p. 147. The passage cited presumably comes from Chateaubrial1d.
[pl,2]
Ganneau. '"'"The Mapah ... appears to us under the aspect of the perfect dandy,
who loves horses, adores women, and has u taste for the high life but is entirely
impecunious. This lack of funds he makes up for through gamhling; he is a hahitue
of all the gambling dens of the Palais-Royal. ... He helieves himself destined to be