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Book III. The Tuileries.
Chapter 1. Epimenides. How true that there is nothing dead in this Universe; that what we call d...
Book II. Nanci.
Chapter 1. Bouille. Dimly visible, at Metz on the North-Eastern frontier, a certain brave Bouill...
Book I. The Feast of Pikes.
Chapter 1. In the Tuileries. The victim having once got his stroke-of-grace, the catastrophe can...
Book VII. The Insurrection of Women.
Chapter 1. Patrollotism. No, Friends, this Revolution is not of the consolidating kind. Do not f...
Book VI. Consolidation.
Chapter 1. Make the Constitution. Here perhaps is the place to fix, a little more precisely, wha...
Book V. The Third Esta
Chapter 1. Inertia. That exasperated France, in this same National Assembly of hers, has got som...
Book IV. States-General
Chapter 1. The Notables Again. The universal prayer, therefore, is to be fulfilled! Always in da...
Book III. The Parlement of Paris
Chapter 1. Dishonoured Bills. While the unspeakable confusion is everywhere weltering within, an...
Book II. The Paper Age.
Chapter I. Astraea Redux. A paradoxical philosopher, carrying to the uttermost length that aphor...
Book I. Death of Louis XV.
Chapter 1. Louis the Well-Beloved. President Henault, remarking on royal Surnames of Honour how ...
Appendix
This questionable little Book was undoubtedly written among the mountain solitudes, in 1831; but,...
Chapter 12. Farewell.
So have we endeavored, from the enormous, amorphous Plum-pudding, more like a Scottish Haggis, wh...
Chapter 11. Tailors.
Thus, however, has our first Practical Inference from the Clothes-Philosophy, that which respects...
Chapter 10. The Dandiacal Body.
First, touching Dandies, let us consider, with some scientific strictness, what a Dandy specially...
Chapter 9. Circumspective.
Here, then, arises the so momentous question: Have many British Readers actually arrived with us ...
Chapter 8. Natural Supernaturalism.
It is in his stupendous Section, headed Natural Supernaturalism, that the Professor first becomes...
Chapter 7. Organic Filaments.
For us, who happen to live while the World-Phoenix is burning herself, and burning so slowly that...
Chapter 6. Old Clothes.
As mentioned above, Teufelsdrockh, though a Sansculottist, is in practice probably the politest m...
Chapter 5. The Phoenix.
Putting which four singular Chapters together, and alongside of them numerous hints, and even dir...
Chapter 4. Helotage.
At this point we determine on adverting shortly, or rather reverting, to a certain Tract of Hofra...