A Passion for Paris by Downie, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Notice Dedication Epigraph Acknowledgments Part I: Romantic Encounters in a Maid’s Room

Fig. 1: The Seine, Seven Bridges, and Hôtel de Ville 1. Overhead in a Balloon

Fig. 2: No caption. Fig. 3: Nadar overhead in his balloon Fig. 4: La Bohème, based on Henri Murger’s novel Fig. 5: La Bohème, based on Henri Murger’s novel

2. Deciphering the Paris Palimpsest 3. A Tramp Steamer to Père-Lachaise Cemetery

Fig. 6. Honoré de Balzac’s tomb at Père-Lachaise Cemetery Fig. 7: The tomb of Eugène Delacroix at Père-Lachaise Cemetery Fig. 8: Alfred de Musset at Père-Lachaise Cemetery

Part II: Discovering the First Great Romantic Circle

4. Bastille Day 5. Guest Appearances

Fig. 9: Alphonse Karr: the changelessness of change

6. The Romance of Rebelliousness

Fig. 10: Place de la Bastille and the “Spirit of Freedom” Fig. 11: A barricade in 1848

7. Defining the Undefinable: Romanticism 8. An Arsenal of Poetic Weaponry

Fig. 12: Alexandre Dumas when young Fig. 13: Charles Nodier at Père-Lachaise Cemetery Fig. 14: Charles X, the kinky absolutist dandy Fig. 15: Balzac, as a beardless youth and in his prime Fig. 16: Role model: Lamartine the Romantic poet, statesman, narcissist Fig. 17: Victor Hugo leads the Romantics holding a banner that reads: “Ugly Is Beautiful” Fig. 18: Adèle Hugo, model wife and adulteress

9. Love Triangle: Victor, Adèle, and Sainte-Beuve 10. The Battle of Hernani

Fig. 19: An exciting night at the theater Fig. 20: Nerval memorial at Parc de la Tour Saint-Jacques Fig. 21: The “Battle of Hernani” Fig. 22: Stifling the Freedom of the Press

11. Romeo Seeks Juliette

Fig. 23: Juliette Drouet

12. The Conquest of Victor

Fig. 24: Juliette Drouet as Strasbourg, by James Pradier

13. Knight Templar

Fig. 25: Victor Hugo’s house and salon on Place des Vosges Fig. 26: Rodin sculpts Victor Hugo; Edward Steichen, 1903 Fig. 27: Sarah Bernhardt in a familiar position

14. The Historic Present

Fig. 28: A Barricade during the Commune Revolt of 1871 Fig. 29: Napoléon III in all his splendor, pig eyes, mustaches, and medals Fig. 30: Haussmann as “Demolition Artist” (image courtesy Brown University Library) Fig. 31: Haussmann pondering how to profitably evict 300,000 families Fig. 32: Saved in extremis: Hôtel de Sens

15. Balzac’s Marais

Part III: Baudelaire’s Island

16. Joie de Tristesse, or The Romance of Unhappiness

Fig. 33: The Aupick-Baudelaire tomb and tokens, Montparnasse Cemetery

17. Sex, Drugs, and Striking Poses

Fig. 34: Balzac by Rodin, Boulevard Raspail Fig. 35: Harpy keystone over the door to Baudelaire’s former abode Fig. 36: Lon Chaney is The Phantom of the Opera

18. Islands in the Dream

Fig. 37: Prototypical tourist mobs

Part IV: The Cult of the Les Grands Hommes (et Les Femmes?)

Fig 38: Gothic Romantic architecture, the quintessence of romance 19. The Architecture of Romance

Fig. 39: The façade of Notre Dame Cathedral Fig. 40: Ghouls, vampires, gargoyles on Notre Dame Cathedral Fig. 41: Ile de la Cité, the downstream tip, Paris’ most romantic spot? Fig. 42: Viollet-le-Duc as Apostle (photo credit: Harmonia Amanda)

20. The Anti-Romantics

Fig. 43: Locks on the Pont de l’Archevêché behind Notre Dame Cathedral Fig. 44: Saint-Séverin before Viollet-le-Duc’s gargoyles were added Fig. 45: Hotel de Cluny saved, not improved Fig. 46: An authentically Grand Boulevard—no Haussmann, please Fig. 47: Rue de Rivoli arcades, the upside, signed Napoléon I (not his nephew) Fig. 48: Café culture then and now: the waiters’ uniforms and atmosphere are unchanged

21. The Academy of the Dead

Fig. 49: The Panthéon’s drum beats the march of the nation Fig. 50: Victor Hugo, hero and tomb as common currency Fig. 51: Hugo as keystone, Avenue Victor Hugo Fig. 52: Funeral of Victor Hugo: millions of mourners Fig. 53: The Luxembourg: the chairs are now metal, but otherwise Alphonse Karr would recognize the scene

Part V: Romantic Romps

22. A Leafy Panthéon of Romance

Fig. 54: George Sand, queen of the Luxembourg Garden Fig. 55: The Mask Seller, Luxembourg Gardens Fig. 56: Familiarity breeds passion: the timeless Luxembourg then and now

23. The Sand Pit

Fig. 57: Marie Dorval as femme fatale Fig. 58: Marie Dorval dreaming of George, Victor, Alfred or… Fig. 59: Sainte-Beuve’s impish smile, in the Luxembourg Garden Fig. 60: Sainte-Beuve cuts a dashing figure?

24. Butterfly Catcher

Fig. 61: Chopin and Muse at the Luxembourg Fig. 62: George Sand, “the third sex”

25. Merry-Go-Rounds and Talking Heads

Fig. 63: Pradier, heartless musketeer, on the greenhouse at the Luxembourg Fig. 64: Alphonse Karr digging up the dirt Fig. 65: Louise Colet as Emma Bovary, carriage awaiting Fig. 66: Flaubert: prematurely mature Fig. 67: Louise Colet/Emma Bovary ready for action Fig. 68: Does Pradier rest in peace at Père-Lachaise Cemetery?

26. Merging into Bohemia

Fig. 69: Henri Murger in the Luxembourg Garden Fig. 70: “Mimi” by Nadar Fig. 71: Henri Murger by Nadar

27. The Water Drinkers

Fig. 72: Emma Bovary and the rascal Rodolphe Fig. 73: Baudelaire in the Luxembourg Garden among Flowers of Evil

28. Momus Is the Word

Fig. 74: No padlocks: in the foreground the Pont des Arts sketched by J. M. Whistler Fig. 75: Pont des Art: new forms of bondage and servitude or romance? Fig. 76: Just possibly the most Romantic spot in Paris: Pont des Arts

29. Color Versus Line

Fig. 77: Liberty Leading the People and Delacroix as hard cash Fig. 78: Delacroix: Dashingly door Fig. 79: Muse and Painter: the Delacroix memorial fountain, Luxembourg Garden

30. A Drunken Boat, a Starving Writer, and Two Giant Clarinets

Fig. 80: The Rimbaud “Poetry Wall” near Saint-Sulpice

31. Delacroix’s Last Stand

Fig. 81: Mephistopheles Aloft by Eugene Delacroix Fig. 82: Nadar’s Pantheon: Where’s Delacroix? Pantheon Nadar

Part VI: Quai Voltaire

32. The Seine’s Scene

Fig. 83: The more things change … Balzac’s antiques dealers continue to thrive Fig. 84: Fame, Fortune, Death: hanging by the skin of a wild ass

33. D’Artagnan’s Cask of Amontillado

Fig. 85: Muse of music, Hôtel de Mailly-Nesle

34. Delacroix Rebuffs Dumas

Fig. 86: Louis Philippe when young: art patron, dandy, friend of Dumas and Hugo

Part VII: The New Athens and Montmartre

35. Delacroix’s Permanent Ephemera

Fig. 87: Dumas by Nadar

36. Parisian Acropolis

Fig. 88: Working for the Prix de Rome: A typical artist’s atelier Fig. 89: Chopin, first master of the blue note?

37. Chopin’s Hand

Fig. 90: The church of the Trinity, ideal for a tryst Fig. 91: Short, dark, and handsome Fig. 92: Chopin’s Tomb at Père-Lachaise Cemetery sculpted by Auguste Clésinger

38. A Real Butte

Fig. 93: Montmartre’s other Moulin, Moulin de la Galette Fig. 94: The Siege and Blockade of Paris: Balloons! Fig. 95: Is Paris burning? Yes! The Commune Revolt of 1871

39. Devil May Care 40. Slumming Stein and Picasso’s Blue Rose

Fig. 96: Gertrude Stein and Picasso’s portrait of her, above right

41. Spirits Set in Stone

Fig. 97: Gautier’s tomb at Montmartre Cemetery

Part VIII: Open Endings

42. The Long and Winding Road 43. Quiet Days in Passy 44. Sending Out an SMS: From Balzac with Love

Fig. 98: Dites fromage!

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