Notes
All translations of quotations from other languages into English are the author’s unless otherwise noted.
1. This interpretation derives from Wilson, Diderot, p. 420. [BACK]
2. Mercier, Picture of Paris, p. 177. [BACK]
3. Chevalier de Jaucourt, “Spectacles” and [Diderot], “Art,” in Encyclopédie, vol. 15, pp. 446–47, and vol. 1, pp. 713–17, respectively; Charles Batteux, Les Beaux arts réduits à un même principe (New York: Johnson Reprints, 1970; reprint of 2d ed., Paris, 1747; first published in Paris, 1746). Jaucourt, “Spectacles,” says explicitly that his exposition is based on Batteux. [BACK]
4. Batteux, Beaux arts réduits, p. 6. [BACK]
5. Schonberg, Great Pianists, p. 132. [BACK]
6. Burke, Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe, p. 63; Dwight Macdonald, “Masscult and Midcult,” in Against the American Grain (New York: Random House, 1962), pp. 27–75; Geneviève Bollème, “Littérature populaire et littérature de colportage au 18e siècle,” in Bollème, Ehrard, Furet et al., Livre et société dans la France du XVIIIe siècle, 2 vols. (Paris: Mouton, 1965–70), vol. 1, pp. 66–69; Root-Bernstein, Boulevard Theater and Revolution, p. 34. [BACK]
7. Dale, Early Flying Machines, p. 25. [BACK]