The Arcades Project - Operi

Tl isit, Wagram, Calais, Antwerp, London, Florence,jerusalem, Athens. Among his pupils,
Daguerre.
Site of the Passage du Caire in the notorious "Cour des Miracles" (see Hugo, Notre-Dame
de Paris). It was called the 'Icourt of miracles" because the beggars who made dus place
their guild hall shed their feigued infinnities there.
February 12, 1790: execution of the Marquis de Favras (accused of counterrevolutionary
conspiracy). The Place de Greve and the scaffold decked with Chinese lanterns.
A Strasbourg piano manufacturer, Schmidt, made the first guillotine.
Georama in the fourteenth a1Tondissement. Small nature-replica of France.
Passage Vivienne the "solid" arcade, in contrast to the Passage des Panoramas. No luxury
shops in the fonner. Businesses in the Passage des Panoramas: Restaurant Veron, Mar­
quis Chocolates, lending library, music shop, caricaturist, Theatre des Va rietes (tailors,
bootmakers, haberdashers, wine merchants, hosiers) .
The perspective of the opera in the Musee Grevin (on the Passage de l'Opera, compare Le
Fanlome de l'OPera).ll
The (caricaturist?) Aubert in the Passage vero-Dodat. Marble pavement!
Roi-Ma,on -nickname of Louis Philippe.
In 1 863Jacques Fabien publishes Paris en songe He explains d,ere how
electricity causes multiple blindings through excess of light, and induces madness because
of the tempo of news services.
Names of jewelers written in false gemstones above their shops.
Transition from boutique to magasin. The shopkeeper buys provisions for a week and
withdraws to the entresol.
In great vogue around 1820: cashmere.
Origin of the magic lantern. Inventor, Athanasius Kircher.
In 1757, there were only three cafes in Paris.
Identify the frontispiece to volume 1 of L'Hennite de fa Chaussee d'Antin (Paris,
1813)."
"Praise God and all my shops"-saying attributed to Louis Philippe.