Index
A
aesthetic of integration, 66
aesthetic of iteration, 64
aesthetic of the street, 183 -84
Apollinaire, Guillaume, 113 , 220
Aragon, Louis, 228 -29
B
Balzac, Honoré de, 39 , 65 -66;
compared with Mercier, 50 ;
Parisian panoramas, 67 -68
Barthes, Roland, 93
Baudelaire, Charles, 81 , 107 -8, 226 ;
artist-flâneur of, 94
Benjamin, Walter, 1 , 5 , 15 , 65 , 80 -81;
phantasmagoria, 108 ;
time-space and dream-time, 5 , 229 ;
vision of history, 107
bird's-eye view, 7 , 67 , 93 , 191 , 222 , 227
Bonald, vicomte de, 4
Brice, Germain, 43
C
Certeau, Michel de, 100
chronotope, 4 , 73 , 197 , 225
Commune de Paris (1871), the, 138 , 154 , 187 -88, 195
Corrozet, Gilles, 40 , 42 -43, 47
Courbet, Gustave, La Curée,142 , 143 , 176 , 196 -99;
and the Vendôme Column, 196 -97
D
Dante, as model for writer-guide, 37
Descartes, René, 25 , 30 , 119 -20
discourse of displacement, 117
discourse of placement, 93
Durkheim, Émile, 100 -102, 106 , 226 ;
analysis of suicide, 102 -4
E
Eiffel Tower, 220 -24, 226 , 228
Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis-Napoleon, The (Marx), 124 , 137 , 195
F
Ferragus (Balzac), 84 , 88 , 90 , 121 -22
flânerie, as strategy of representation, 81
flâneur:
Académie française definition, 93 , 112 -13;
aristocratic, 99 ;
artist-flâneur, 95 -112;
female (flâneuse ),84 -85, 113 ;
compared to devil, 85 ;
as detective, 92 ;
origins, 82 ;
Parisian locus, 80 -81
Flaubert, Gustave, 110 -11 , 226
François I, 19
Foucault, Michel, 36
G
Grégoire, abbé, 26 -28, 29 -30, 32
guidebooks, 39 -58;
ancien régime, 39 -46;
literary, 58
guillotine, 36 , 167 -68, 189 -90, 191 , 224
H
Halbwachs, Maurice, 6
Haussmann, baron Georges-Eugène, 115 , 119 , 128 , 150
haussmannization, 118 -124, 125 , 133 , 161 ;
as discourse, 117
Hugo, Victor, 154 -62, 197 -99;
as cultural icon, 161 ;
exile of, 152 -58, 159 , 161 ;
funeral of, 177 ;
politics of performance, 158 -61, 193
I
intellectual, the, 212 -20
J
Jouy, Étienne de, 55 ;
Hermit figure, 55 -56, 61 , 88
L
Labédollière Émile de, Le Nouveau Paris, 122 -24
la curée,125 . 141 -44, 148 , 207
La Curée (Zola), 125 -50, 201 ;
disease in, 140 -47;
mobility as structure in, 133 -38;
modernity of, 150 ;
money in, 128 -30;
real estate in, 127 -31;
theatricality of, 137 -40
La Débâcle (Zola), 201 -205
L'Année terrible (Hugo), 157 , 204
L'Assommoir (Zola), 134
"Le Cygne' (Baudelaire), 115 , 122
Le Diable boiteux (Lesage), 47 -48, 59 -60
Le Docteur Pascal (Zola), 211
L 'Education sentimentale (G. Flaubert), 94 -111, 117 , 211 ;
failure in, 95 ;
reverie in, 98 -99;
role of Seine in, 99
L'Enfant, Major Pierre Charles, plan for Washington, 33 -35
Le Spleen de Paris (Baudelaire), 108
Le Tableau de Paris (Vallès), 76 -79;
compared to Paris-Guide,77
Les Francais peints par eux-mêmes,59 , 61 , 66 , 80 , 8 , 89 , 91
Les Quatre Évangiles (Zola), 211 -12
L'Insurgé (Vallès), 177 , 185 -92;
language of the people in, 187 -88;
as modernist text, 182 , 192 , 194
Louis XVI, execution of, 36 , 154 , 163 , 185 , 189 , 224
M
Mercier, Louis-Sébastien, 38 , 46 , 56 , 58 , 85 ;
as creator of new genre, 48 , 54 ;
on streets of Paris, 19 , 22 -23, 29 ;
Tableau de Paris,48 -54
metaphors, 67 -69, 72 , 74 , 111 , 144 , 151 , 156 , 169 , 207
Metz, Guillebert de, 18
Mirbeau, Octave, 131
modernity, 3 , 11 , 13 , 70 , 108 , 146 -47, 150 -51, 225 -26
modernization, 28 , 117 , 133 , 150 -51
myth of Paris, 68 -69, 112 , 208 -9, 224 -25
N
names of streets: as ideological system, 28 ;
as landscape of power, 18 , 29 ;
as sacred geography, 18 , 29 , 39
Napoléon III (emperor), 140 , 152 , 202
naturalization of politics,
by Zola, 205
New World, cities contrasted with Europe, 31 -32
nomination, ethics of, 14
Notre-Dame de Paris (Hugo), 67 , 74 -75, 121
O
"Ode à la Colonne Vendôme" (Hugo), 196 -99
P
Panthéon, 30 , 74 , 75 , 98 , 177 , 216 , 229
Paris, city of:
annexation of suburbs, 133 ;
changing population of, 133 -34;
as chronotope of revolution, 197 , 225 ;
decapitation of, 37 , 153 -54;
images of, 67 -68, 72 -74, 92 , 99 , 111 , 141 , 144 , 151 , 154 , 169 , 171 , 203 , 206 -8;
as king of France, 152 , 153 ;
myth of , 68 , 112 , 208 , 224 -25;
"not a city but a world," 11 ;
personifications, 73 , 92 , 99 , 141 , 154 , 171 ;
Prussian siege of, 152 ;
seal of, 70 , 115 , 116 , 151 , 162
Paris (Zola), 205 -16;
as blueprint for the intellectual, 213 , 214 , 218 -20;
images of nature, 206 -12;
naturalization of politics, 205 ;
reconception of urban space, 207 -8;
Paris, ou le livre des cent-et-un,59 , 60 -61, 62 , 84 , 85
Paris-Guide, Introduction (Hugo), 11 , 59 , 69 -75, 195 , 210
Penn, William, plan for Philadelphia, 32
Père-Lachaise (cemetery), 67 -68, 177
Physiologie duflaneur,84 , 88 -89, 91
Place de France, 20 -21, 23 -24, 34
Pujoulx, J. B., 23 -24, 47 , 55 , 57
Q
Quatrevingt-treize (Hugo), 74 , 162 -74;
antitheses in, 166 ;
and the Commune, 169 -71;
compared with Notre-Dame de Paris,162 , 166 , 170 -73;
depoliticization, 165 -67;
and the Third Republic, 170 , 178 -79
R
Revolution (1789), compared with American Revolution, 1 -12, 16 , 33
Rivarol, Antoine de, 50 -51
S
Sacré-Coeur, Basilica of, 209 , 229
Seal of Paris. See Paris, seal of
Second Empire,
defeat at Sedan, 152 ;
financial practices, 131
social memory, 6
sociology,
tradition of, 100
street names:
medieval, 16 -18;
rationalization of, 34 -25, 30 ;
revolutionizing of, 25 ;
sanitizing of, 22
synecdoche as urban trope, 65 -67, 72 , 93 , 208
T
Tableau de Paris (Mercier), 48 -54
Teisserenc, abbé, 24
compared to First Republic, 153 -54;
proclamation of, 152
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 32 , 100
U
urban genre, 5
V
aesthetic of deflation, 189 -90;
as Communard, 174 -75;
compared to Hugo, 78 ;
compared to Mercier, 76 -77, 79 ;
criticism of Hugo, 182 -83;
criticism of literary culture, 181 -82, 185 -88;
linguistic innovations, 175 ;
performance of politics, 178 , 183 , 193 ;
as "victim of the book," 185 , 190
Vendôme Column, 195 -99;
demolition of, 195 , 204 , 220 ;
end of romantic Paris, 199
Verlaine, Paul, 118
Villette, marquis de, 26
Voltaire, 22 , 25 , 133 , 178 , 223
W
Washington, D.C., streets, 33 -35;
as image of Constitution, 34 ;
contrasted with Paris, 31 , 33
Z
Zazie dans le métro (Queneau), 228 -29
Zola, Émile, 117 , 125 , 132 , 149 ;
and Dreyfus affair, 212 -18;