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3. Benjamin is quoting from an open letter by the economist Frederic Bastiat to Lamartine,
according to which the latter is actually citing Fourier. [R.T]
4. Le Corbusier, The City q/Tomorrow and Its Planning, trans. Frederick Etchells (1929;
rpt. New York: Dover, 1987), p. 156.
5. Ibid., p. 155. See E5a,6.
6. Ibid., p. 261.
7. Andre Breton, Nadja, trans. Richard Howard (New York: Grove, 1960), p. 152.
8. GisCle Freund, Plwtographie und biirgerliche Gesellsduift: Eine Iwnstsoziologische Studie
(Munich, 1968), p. 67. [RT]
9. Le Corbusier, The City q/Tomorrow, p. 156. Next sentence: "And in destroying chaos,
he built up the emperor's finances!"
10. In chapter 14 of his popular utopian novel of 1888, Looking Backward: 2000-1887,
Edward Bellamy describes a continuous waterproof covering let down in inclement
weather to enclose sidewalks and streetcomers.
11. After the government, in July 1833, had bowed to public resistance and abandoned
its plan to build fortifications around the city of Paris, it took its revenge by arresting
a number of individuals (including four students from the Ecole Poly technique)
thought to be illegally manufacturing gunpowder and arms. The group was acquitted
in December. G. Pinet, Hzstvire de l'Ecole jiolyteclmique (Paris: Baudry, 1887), pp. 214-
219.
12. This passage does not appear in the English-language edition: Gustav Mayer, Friedriclz
Engels, trans. Gilbert Highet and Helen Highet (1936; rpt. New York: Howard
Fertig, 1969).
13. Siegfried Kl'acauer, O,pheus in Paris: Offinbach and the Paris q/ His Time, trans.
Gwenda David and Eric Mosbacher (New York: Knopf, 1938) p. 190.
14. See below, EI0a,3.
15. Honore de Balzac, Pere Coriot, trans. Henry Reed (New York: New American Library,
1962), p. 275.
16. 17le Essential Rousseau, trans. Lowell Barr (New York: New American Library, 1974),
p. 17.
17. Friedrich Engels, The IIousing (hiestion, trans. anonymous in Marx and Engels, Collected
Work.r, vol. 23 (New York: International Pnblishers, 1988), p. 365.
F [Iron Construction 1
1. Emended to read "glass)' in the German edition.
2. From hdbleur; "boastful chatterbox." A character in Grandville1s book of illustrations
Un autre monde. See Fantastic Illustrations q/Crandville (New York: Dover, 1974), p. 49.
3. The term for Ilrailroad" in German, Eisenbalm) means literally "iron track." The tenn
came into use around 1820 and) unlike Eisenbalmhqf(which became simply Bahnhqf),
continued to be used after steel rails had replaced the iron.
4. Karl Marx, Capital, vol. 1, trans. Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling (1887; ! P t. New
York: International Publishers, 1967)) p. 362n. IIFonn of the tool," at the end, translates
KO" iJeiform des Werkzeugs (literally, Ilbodily form") ' and this is the term taken up
by Benjamin in parenthesis.
5. I'Mehr Licht!": Goethe's last words.
6. The Gennan Halle and the English "hall" derive from a Germanic noun meaning
'I covered place;' which in turn is traced back to an Indo-European root signifying "to
cover, conceal." "Hall" is cognate with "hell:' In earlier times, the hall-in cOntrast to