Contents ( 51)
- Roberto Calasso
- Contents
- Note for Lucien
- Living in the Torrent
- Exempla Voluptatis
- The Grand Ball
- Treacherous Trifles
- Dismal Glory
- “The Mysterious Force of Legitimacy”
- Arcana Imperii
- The Origins of Sweetness
- Eulogius
- L’Autrichienne
- The Woodcutter and the Fisherman
- Goethe in Venice
- On Taste
- Metamorphoses of Style
- A Belated Nostalgia for Sorrow
- The Languor of a Park in Berry
- Around Port-Royal
- The Ruin of Kasch
- Among the Ruins of Kasch
- Elements of Sacrifice
- Law and Order
- The Forest Doctrine
- Archives and Will-o’-the-Wisps
- Postcards from the Quaternary
- The Demon of Repetition
- Goethe’s Birthday
- Sacrificial Crumbs
- The Antiromantic Child
- Limits
- Process
- Glosses on Marx
- Ricardo’s Ruthlessness
- Geldkristall
- History Makes Experiments
- The Artificial Barbarian
- Un frisson nouveau
- Behind the Glass
- Bien-aimé
- A Visit to Picpus
- “The Organization Wouldn’t Like That”
- The Moscow Doorkeeper
- Montaigne’s Wake
- The Wolf-Man Recalls
- Voices from the Palais-Royal
- Mundus Patet
- Letter from Saint Petersburg
- Notes
- 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.