Paris in the Twentieth Century (24 page)

[53]
Champfleury (Jules-Fran
ç
ois-FeIix Husson):
French critic and novelist, a polemicist for the realist
school in art and literature, a friend of Verne's publisher Hetzel.

[54]
Jean Mace:
French journalist and educator.

[55]
Joseph M
é
ry:
French poet, novelist, and playwright.

[56]
P. J. Stahl:
The nom de plume of Hetzel himself, who obviously
published him "scrupulously."

[57]
Ars
é
ne Houssaye:
French critic, journalist, and novelist.

[58]
Paul Bins, Comte de Saint-Victor:
French literary critic known for his complex style.

[59]
turpe:
vile.

[60]
Pulchre:
Beautiful.

[61]
The Great Eastern:
Legendary steamship 110 meters long, for many years the
largest in the world; laid the telegraphic cable joining Europe and America in
1866.

[62]
The battle of the Amalekites:
episode from the Old Testament, Exodus 17:12.

[63]
An Auvergnat into the bargain:
In French popular theater of the nineteenth century,
Auvergnats were pilloried for rustic crudeness and naive rapacity.

[64]
Roland's mare:
Adorned with all the virtues, and lacking only...
existence.

[65]
Fran
ç
ois Ponsard:
French dramatic author, friend of Verne's publisher
Hetzel.

[66]
É
mile Augier:
Popular French dramatic author; wrote
Gabrielle.

[67]
Th
é
odore Barr
i
é
re:
Prolific vaudevillist, author of
Calino.

[68]
Fran
ç
ois-Paul Meurice:
French litterateur and playwright, friend of Victor Hugo.

[69]
Auguste Vacquerie:
French litterateur and playwright, in Hugo's circle.

[70]
Gustave Flourens:
A brilliant academic, appointed to the chair of natural
history at the College de France at the age of twenty-five, killed during the
Commune, 1871.

[71]
Benoît
Fourneyron:
French engineer and politician, inventor of the hydraulic
turbine.

[72]
Koechlin:
Family of French industrialists.

[73]
Electric light:
Regular utilization of electric light began in 1885.

[74]
Hungarian method:
Satire on Liszt, whose legendary virtuosity defied
understanding.

[75]
The Grecostasis:
In the Roman Forum, the place where foreign deputations
were made to wait for the Roman Senate.

[76]
François-Antoine Habeneck:
French composer and orchestra conductor; introduced
Beethoven's symphonic music into France.

[77]
Ernest Reyer:
French opera composer.

[78]
Jacques-Antoine Manuel:
French politician; a symbol of liberal opposition to the
first Restoration.

[79]
Maximilien-S
é
bastien Foy:
French General, who like Manuel became an emblem of
liberal opposition under the first Restoration.

[80]
James Pradier:
Swiss sculptor.

[81]
Marc-Antoine D
é
saugiers:
French vaudevillist.

[82]
Gaspard Monge:
French geometrician, founder of the École Polytechnique.

[83]
Antoine Etex:
French sculptor and architect.

[84]
François-Vincent Raspail:
French biologist and republican politician.

[85]
Louis-François Clairville:
Popular French vaudevillist.

[86]
Adolphe-Philippe Dennery:
French man of the theater; adapted Verne's
Around the World in Eighty Days
for the stage.

[87]
Jean-François-Casimir
Delavigne:
French
dramatist.

[88]
É
mile Souvestre:
French novelist and playwright.

[89]
Eustache B
é
rat:
French songwriter.

[90]
É
douard Plouvier:
French playwright.