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the room-was a spacious, half-open stmcture (with a roof supported by pillars or
columns) designed to provide shelter from rain or sun.
7. Actually known as the Palais des Machines, it was built for the world exhibition of
1889 by the engineers Contamin, PielTon, and Chartron. [J,L.] 111e quotation, given
without references, is in German,
8. On July 28, 1835, during a parade by the Garde Nationale down the Boulevard du
Temple, the Corsican conspirator Giuseppe Fieschi made an unsuccessful attempt on
the life of Louis Philippe. His "infernal machine"-a device made of several guns
rigged to fire simultaneously-killed eighteen people.
9. Victor Hugo, Noire-Dame if Paris, trans. John Sturrock (New Yo rk: Penguin, 1978),
p. 2Z
10. Constructed by Viel and BalTault for the exhibition of 1855 on the Champs-Elysees.
[J,L.]
11. Hugo, Notre-Dame if Paris, pp. 150-151.
12. The cast-iron bridge of Coalbrookdale, in Shropshire, was built by T. F. Pritchard.
[J,L.]
13. Jules Michelet, Tlte People, trans.John P. McKay (Urbana: University of illinois Press,
1973), pp. 45, 43n.
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1, Alexander von Humboldt's last and greatest work, Kos1?loJ (5 vols., 1845-1862), was
translated into nearly all European languages. The scltwindenden Doppetsterne (disappearing
twin stars) are discussed in volumes 1 and 3,
2. Victoria! A New World! Joyous Proclamation if the Fact That on Our Planet, EsfiCCiall:y in
tlle Northern Hemisphere We Occupy) a Total Alteration in Temperature Has Begun) Thanks
to the Increase in Atmospheric Ularmth.
3. 1867 was the year of Offenbach's biggest box-office success, La Grande-Duchesse de
Geralstein, with libretto by Henri Meilliac and Ludovic Halevy.
4, Mter Paxton's designs were initially rejected by the London Building Committee in
1850, he published them in the London Ne ws) and public response to his unusual
concept was so overwhelmingly favorable that the committee capitulated.
5, The advertisement appears in Benjamin's German translation, Original French in
GS, vol. 5, pp. 1327-1328.
6. Karl Marx, Capital, vol. 1, trans. Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling (1887; rpt. New
York: International Publishers, 1967), pp. 76-77.
7. Ibid., p. 76.
8. The Crystal Palace was destroyed by a spectacular fire at Sydenharn in south London
in 1936.
9. At the end of the second Opium War (1856-1860), allied English and French forces
captured Peking and burned the Chinese emperor's summer palace.
10. The royal ordinance ofJanuary 13, 1819, provided for the public exhibition of the
products of French industry "in the rooms and galleries of the Louvre," at intervals
not exceeding every four years ; a jury was to decide which exhibitors deserved
rewards from the government.
11. TImt is, 1801, according to the French revolutionary calendar.
12. The Mysteries if Paris (1842-1843), enormously popular novel by Eugene Sue.
13. Hugh Walpole, The Fortress (1932; rpt. Phoenix Mill, England: Alan Sutton Publish­
ing? 1995), pp, 248, 247. The description of the "monster lodging-house" mentioned