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Les chiffonniers de Paris by Antoine Compagnon (review)
Ist Teil von
The French Review, 2019-03, Vol.92 (3), p.209-210
Ort / Verlag
Carbondale: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2019
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE: Universal journals
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Identifiable by his ubiquitous spiked trash picker, lantern, and wicker basket, as shown in this engaging book's 146 beautifully-reproduced engravings, paintings, photographs, and other illustrations, the chiffonnier was "l'idéal-type du XIXe siècle" (413). [...]the 1870s paper was made from fabric pulp, which was recycled from old papers and rags collected by chiffonniers. At the intersection of history, economics, literature, and art, he (primarily men, but there were some women and children) differed from the rag-and-bone men or bone-grubbers found in London and elsewhere by way of his unique role in Parisian society and imagination. In this fascinating stroll through nineteenth-century Paris, the reader too must act like a chiffonnier—a process that Compagnon himself illustrates in the book's last chapter— and wander through Compagnon's occasionally digressive (such as an anecdote about Claude Bernard, his wife, la Place Marcelin-Berthelot, and chiffonniers who specialized in killing animals) and repetitive prose to find that precious silver spoon.