Index

A

aesthetic of integration, 66

aesthetic of iteration, 64

aesthetic of the street, 183 -84

alienation, 81 , 106

Apollinaire, Guillaume, 113 , 220

Aragon, Louis, 228 -29

B

Bakhtin, Mikhail, 4 , 16

Balzac, Honoré de, 39 , 65 -66;

artist-flâneur of, 90 , 92 ;

compared with Mercier, 50 ;

Parisian panoramas, 67 -68

Barrès, Maurice, 100 , 226

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;

bourgeois, 83 , 99 ;

as failure, 95 , 110 , 113 ;

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

Gautier, Théophile, 55 , 57

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

Henri IV, 19 , 34

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

Janin, Jules, 60 -61, 64 , 66

Jefferson, Thomas, 33 , 34

Jèze, le sieur, 43 , 46 , 58

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 ;

artists in, 145 , 146 -49;

disease in, 140 -47;

as monument, 126 , 138 ;

mobility as structure in, 133 -38;

modernity of, 150 ;

money in, 128 -30;

real estate in, 127 -31;

Seine in, 137 , 146 ;

textuality of, 129 -32, 145 ;

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

Marx, Karl 101 , 107 -8, 151

Mercier, Louis-Sébastien, 38 , 46 , 56 , 58 , 85 ;

as creator of new genre, 48 , 54 ;

as ethnologist, 49 , 53 ;

as model, 50 , 60 ;

on streets of Paris, 19 , 22 -23, 29 ;

Tableau de Paris,48 -54

metaphors, 67 -69, 72 , 74 , 111 , 144 , 151 , 156 , 169 , 207

metonymies, 67 , 72 , 139

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

naming of streets 13 -34, 120

Napoléon III (emperor), 140 , 152 , 202

naturalization of politics,

by Hugo, 165 , 167 ;

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;

deposed, 200 , 201 ;

images of, 67 -68, 72 -74, 92 , 99 , 111 , 141 , 144 , 151 , 154 , 169 , 171 , 203 , 206 -8;

as king of France, 152 , 153 ;

knowability of, 1 , 7 ;

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;

utopic vision, 211 -12, 220

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

physiologies,59 , 64 , 81 -85

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,

corruption of, 125 , 133 -36;

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

Third Republic, 152 , 178 ;

compared to First Republic, 153 -54;

proclamation of, 152

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 32 , 100

U

urban genre, 5

urban icons 7 , 14

urban text 15 , 38 , 64

utopic, 30 , 35 , 69

V

Vallès, Jules, 76 , 85 ;

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;

journalism, 179 -81, 187 ;

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

Veuillot, Louis, 152 , 153

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;

"J'accuse," 215 , 219