The Arcades Project - Operi

Impasse Maubert, formerly d'Arnboise. Around 1756, at Nos. 4-6, a poisoner resided
with her two assistants. All three were found dead one morning-killed through inhala­
tion of toxic fumes.
In the Passage de la Reunion there was once a courtyard; in the sixteenth century,
it was a meeting place for thieves. At the beginning of the nineteenth or end
of the eighteenth century, a dealer in muslins (wholesale) sets up shop in the
arcade.
Two pleasure districts m 1799: the Coblentz" (for returning emigres) and the
Temple.
Le Charivari of 1836 has an illustration showing a poster that covers half a housefront.
The windows are left uncovered, except for one, it seems, out of which a man is leaning
while cutting away the obstnlCting piece of paper.
Originally gas was delivered to fashionable establishments in containers for daily con­
sumption.
Thurn as georalna in the Galerie Colbert
Felicien David, Le Desert (performed before Arabs), Christophe Colomb (panorama
music) .
Passage du Pont-Neuf: desClbed in Zola's TMrese Raquin, right at the beginning
(identical with the earlier Passage Henri IV ").
Elie Nachmeron I Arcades : Bois-de-Boulogne (today:
Grosse-Tte, Reunion.
),10 Caire, COllllllerce,
"Winter, with the famed warmth of lamps . . . " Paul de Kock, La Grande Ville,
vol. 4.