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Jesus had yielded to the natural inclination for love." James de Laurence, Les
En/mus de dieu (Paris, June 1831), p. 5. [P4,2J
Some of Laurence's theoretical motifs are already evident in his four-volume
novel, Le Panorama des boudoirs, ou L'Empire des Nairs (Paris, 1317), which
was published earlier in Germany and of which a fragment had appeared in 1793
in Wieland's Deutsche Merkur. Laurence (Lawrence) was English. [p4,3]
""Balzac has described the physiognomy of the Parisian in unforgettable fashion:
the faces drawn taut, tormented, livid, 'the almost infernal complexion of' Parisian
physiognomies';5 not faces but masks." Ernst Robert Curtius, Balzac (Bonn,
1923), p. 243. (Citation from La Fille aux yeux d'or.) [p4,4J
"Balzac's interest in longevity is one of the things he has in common with the
eighteenth century. The naturalists, the philosophers, the charlatans of' that age
are agreed on this point . ... Condorcet expected from the future era, which he
painted in glowing colors, an infinite prolongation of' the life span. Count Saint­
Germain dispensed a 'tea of life: Cagliostro an 'elixir of life'; others promoted
"sidereal salts, ' 'tincture of gold,' 'magnetic beds. m Ernst Robert Curtius, Balzac
(Bonn, 1923), p. 101. [P4,5J
In Fourier (Nouveau Monde , p. 275) there are outcries against
wedding rites that recall the pronouncements of Claire Demar. [p4, 6J
Note of Blanqui's from the spring of 134.6, when he was imprisoned in the Hospital
of Tours: "On Communion days, the sisters of the hospice of Tours are unapproachable,
ferocious. They have eaten God. They are churning with the pride of
this divine digestion. These vessels of holiness become flasks of vitriol." < Cited in>
Gustave Geffroy, L'En/el'me (Paris, 1926), vol. 1, p. 133. [p4,7J
Apropos of the wedding at Cana. 184·8: "A banquet for the poor was planned; it
was to offer, for twenty-five centimes, bread, cheese, and wine, which would be
eaten and drunk on the plain of Saint-Denis. It did not take place (initially sched­
uled for June 1, it was post.poned to June 13, then to July 14); but the preparatory
meetings that were held, the subscriptions that were collected, and the enroll­
ments-which had mounted, by June 8, to 165,532-served to stir up public opinion."
Gustave Geffroy, L'EII!el'rne (Paris, 1926), vol. 1, p. 192. [p4a,lJ
"In 1848, in the room of Jenny the worker, there were portraits of Beranger,
Napoleon, and the Madonna pinned to the wall. People felt certain that the religion
of Humanity was about to emerge. Jesus is a great man of '48. Among the
masses, there were indications of a faith in omens . ... The Almanach prophetique
of 184.9 announced the return of the comet of 1264--the warrior comet, produced
by the influence of Mars. ' Gustave Geffroy ? L'Enfenne (Paris. 1926), vol. I,
p. 156. [p4a,2J