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Contents ( 51)
  1. Roberto Calasso
  2. Contents
  3. Note for Lucien
  4. Living in the Torrent
  5. Exempla Voluptatis
  6. The Grand Ball
  7. Treacherous Trifles
  8. Dismal Glory
  9. “The Mysterious Force of Legitimacy”
  10. Arcana Imperii
  11. The Origins of Sweetness
  12. Eulogius
  13. L’Autrichienne
  14. The Woodcutter and the Fisherman
  15. Goethe in Venice
  16. On Taste
  17. Metamorphoses of Style
  18. A Belated Nostalgia for Sorrow
  19. The Languor of a Park in Berry
  20. Around Port-Royal
  21. The Ruin of Kasch
  22. Among the Ruins of Kasch
  23. Elements of Sacrifice
  24. Law and Order
  25. The Forest Doctrine
  26. Archives and Will-o’-the-Wisps
  27. Postcards from the Quaternary
  28. The Demon of Repetition
  29. Goethe’s Birthday
  30. Sacrificial Crumbs
  31. The Antiromantic Child
  32. Limits
  33. Process
  34. Glosses on Marx
  35. Ricardo’s Ruthlessness
  36. Geldkristall
  37. History Makes Experiments
  38. The Artificial Barbarian
  39. Un frisson nouveau
  40. Behind the Glass
  41. Bien-aimé
  42. A Visit to Picpus
  43. “The Organization Wouldn’t Like That”
  44. The Moscow Doorkeeper
  45. Montaigne’s Wake
  46. The Wolf-Man Recalls
  47. Voices from the Palais-Royal
  48. Mundus Patet
  49. Letter from Saint Petersburg
  50. Notes
  51. THE BEGINNING

148 Charles Nodier, Souvenirs …, cit., p. 27.

149 Ibid., p. 28.

150 Jules Michelet, Histoire de la Révolution française, cit., vol. II, p. 995.

151 Ibid., p. 993.

152 Ibid., pp. 993–94.

153 Louis Massignon, Bi-centenaire de la naissance de Marie-Antoinette, in Opera minora, cit., vol. III, p. 685.

154 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Dichtung und Wahrheit, in Werke, cit., vol. X, 1962, pp. 399–400.

155 Ibid., p. 400.

156 Prince de Ligne, Mémoires, in Mémoires et lettres, Crès, Paris, 1923, p. 88.

157 Stendhal, Souvenirs d’égotisme, cit., p. 1486.

158 Talleyrand, Memoir Concerning the Commercial Relations of the United States with England, Longman Hurst Rees and Orme, London, 1806, p. 39.

159 Ibid, pp. 41–43 (adapted).

160 Ibid, pp. 43–45 (adapted).

161 Jules Michelet, Histoire de la Révolution française, cit., vol. I, 1977, p. 414 (see also Michelet, History of the French Revolution, H. G. Bohn, London, 1847).

162 Ibid., p. 412.

163 Ibid., p. 427.

164 Ibid., p. 409.

165 Ibid., p. 410.

166 Ibid., p. 418.

167 Words of Moreau de Jonnès, ibid., pp. 706–707.

168 Georges Avenel, Anacharsis Cloots, Champ Libre, Paris, 1976, p. 112.

169 Anacharsis Cloots, Écrits révolutionnaires, Champ Libre, Paris, 1979, pp. 53–54.

170 [Charles-Maxime de Villemarest], Monsieur de Talleyrand, cit., vol. I, p. 306.

171 Mémoires et relations politiques du baron de Vitrolles, Charpentier, Paris, vol. III, 1884, p. 451.

172 Letter from Talleyrand published in full in [Charles-Maxime de Villemarest], Monsieur de Talleyrand, cit., vol. I, pp. 315–18.

173 Louis Madelin, Talleyrand, Flammarion, Paris, 1944, p. 46.

174 Jules Michelet, Histoire de la Révolution française, cit., vol. I, p. 414.

175 Ibid., p. 420.

176 Ibid., p. 423.

177 Ibid., p. 543.

178 Ibid., p. 698.

179 Ibid., p. 697.

180 Ibid., p. 698.

181 Words of Moreau de Jonnès, ibid., p. 706.

182 Gouverneur Morris, A Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, vol. I, 1888, p. 98.

183 Ibid., pp. 434–35.

184 Letter from Madame du Deffand to Horace Walpole of December 2, 1770, in Horace Walpole’s Correspondence with Madame du Deffand and Wiart, Yale University Press, New Haven–London, vol. II, 1939, p. 489.

185 Sainte-Beuve, Hamilton, in Causeries du lundi, cit., vol. I, 1926, p. 94.

186 Ibid., p. 93.

187 [H. de Latouche], Album perdu, Aux Marchands de Nouveautés, Paris, 1829, p. 171.

188 Sainte-Beuve, Les Regrets, in Causeries du lundi, cit., vol. VI, 1928, p. 403.

189 Chateaubriand, Mémoires d’outre-tombe, cit., vol. II, p. 10.

190 Talleyrand’s instructions to General Andréossy, in G. Pallain, Correspondance diplomatique de Talleyrand. La mission de Talleyrand à Londres en 1792, Plon, Paris, 1889, p. 151.

191 Chateaubriand, Mémoires d’outre-tombe, cit., vol. I, p. 975.

192 Mémoires et relations politiques du baron de Vitrolles, cit., vol. III, p. 228.

193 Letter from Talleyrand to the Duchess of Courland of September 25, 1815, Archives Talleyrand, in Georges Lacour-Gayet, Talleyrand, cit., vol. III, p. 44.

194 Sainte-Beuve, Le Cahier vert, in Cahiers, Gallimard, Paris, vol. I, 1973, pp. 119–20.