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2. Anon., Ten Years of Imperialism in France: Impressions of a Flâneur (Edinburgh
and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1862).
3. See Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 1999), p. 55.
4. Quoted in Richard D.E. Burton, The Flâneur and his City: Patterns of Daily Life in
Paris 1815–1851 (Durham: University of Durham, 1994), p. 1.
5. Benjamin, Arcades Project, p. 31.
6. Ibid., p. 421
7. Quoted in Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson, “The Flâneur on and off the Streets of Paris,”
in K. Tester (ed.) The Flâneur (London: Routledge, 1994), p. 29.
8. Benjamin, Arcades Project, p. 429.
9. Anon., Ten Years of Imperialism in France, p. 7.
10. Benjamin, Arcades Project, pp. 82–3.
11. Dictionnaire Du Bas-langage, des manieres de parler usitees parmi le peuple (Paris:
Imprimerie De L. Hausmann Pour d’Hautel and F. Schoell, 1808), 2 vols. See also
Ferguson, “The Flâneur on and off the Streets of Paris,” pp. 24, 39.
12. See Ferguson, “The Flâneur on and off the Streets of Paris,” p. 26.
13. Walter Benjamin, Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism
(London: New Left Books, 1973), p. 36.
14. Benjamin, Arcades Project, p. 445.
15. Ibid., p. 423.
16. Benjamin, Charles Baudelaire, p. 37.
17. Ibid., p. 170.
18. Ibid., p. 170.
19. See Walter Benjamin, “Paris, die Stadt im Spiegel” (1929), in Benjamin, Gesammelte
Schriften vol. IV.1, (Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 1989), p. 358.
20. This quotation and following ones stem from Charles Baudelaire, “The Painter of
Modern Life,” in Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays,
(London: Phaidon, 1964), sec. 3–4, pp. 5–15.
21. Benjamin, Arcades Project, p. 417.
22. See Oxford English Dictionary entry for flâneur.
23. Benjamin, Arcades Project, p. 451.
24. Ibid., pp. 453–4.
25. Cited in Benjamin, Arcades Project, p. 426, and in Forster’s The Life of Charles
Dickens.
26. Benjamin, Arcades Project, p. 430.
27. See Benjamin, Charles Baudelaire, pp. 170–1.
28. Ibid., p. 54.
29. See Benjamin, Arcades Project, p. 427.
30. Benjamin, Charles Baudelaire, p. 54.
31. Benjamin, Arcades Project, p. 422; Benjamin, Charles Baudelaire, p. 54.
32. Anon., Ten Years of Imperialism in France, p. 120.
33. Benjamin, Arcades Project, p. 420.
34. Anon., Ten Years of Imperialism in France, pp. 28–9.
35. Frank Lewis Dyer, Edison, his Life and Inventions, ch. 16: “The First Edison Central
Station,” http://www.cybernetbooks.com/edisonsamp.html
36. Benjamin, Arcades Project, pp. 100, 524.
37. Louis Aragon, Paris Peasant (London: Picador, 1971), p. 94.
38. See Walter Benjamin, One-Way Street and Other Writings, (London: New Left
Books, 1979), pp. 226–7.
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